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"Gallorum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae."

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On the day the Roman general Gaius Iulius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC) managed to get command over Gallia Cisalpina and the border-provinces Illyricum and Gallia Transalpina for five years, war was a certainty. The question was merely : Where ? From Illyria east towards the Danube, or from the Provincia west to Gallia ?
The Helvetii gave him the answer : when in March 58 B.C. Caesar heard about their big trek, his decision was made : he would start with Gallia. He impeded the Helvetii from going through the Provincia, so they went north, to Gallia.

Now the Haedui called for help, and Caesar marched into Gallia... as liberator. After the defeat of the Helvetii, he was also asked to rid Gallia of Ariovistus and his Germanic hordes. Ariovistus was driven back over the Rhine, and Gallia could breathe freely.
But at the Rhine-border in Vesontio there lay 6 Roman legions to 'guard' Gallia's freedom...
Only the Belgians were not keen on Caesar's protection and preferred to take care of their own freedom.

At the beginning of the first book of his Bellum Gallicum, Caesar says that of the tribes living in Gallia, the Belgians were farthest away from the civilization and culture of the Provincia.
Further, they were rarely visited by merchants who bring those things that effeminate the spirit.
And thirdly, they lived next to the Germans, with whom they were constantly at war.

Those are the three main causes why "Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae" or

"Of all those, the Belgians are the bravest".