Julius Caesar wrote a book called the Conquest of Gaul, in which he describes the conquest of Gaul from the northern Italian border in the Alps. The Romans would take weeks just to siege a city building fortifications around it. And then when they won, because they didn't want them to revolt again, they cut the hands off of everyone rather than killing them all to show mercy. They cut all their hands off so that gollocks would never revolt again from Caesar's control.

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