Roman Conquest of Gaul and Battle of Alesia

Having been appointed Proconsul of Narbonnaise, Roman leader Julius Caesar decided to conquer Gaul in the year 58BCE. Gaul is where France is now. However, there was someone who wanted to stop him and his name was Vercingetorix. Vercingetorix was a Gallic chief who was rallying against the Romans with various Gauls. They didn't want to be invaded by Romans. In fact the area that Caesar was proconsul of, Narbonnaise is now Languedoc and Provence in the south of France, was a southern Gallic region. As a result, a war broke out between Rome and Gaul. The Gaul put up a brave fight who believed in depriving the Romans of food by the means of scorched earth.

At last, the battle met its climax in 52BCE in a place called Alesia, somewhere in the east of France where the Romans defeated the Gauls and spent the next two summers eliminating remaining insurgent pockets. However, it was Alesia where Vercingetorix surrendered his arms in front of Caesar before being made a prisoner and was brought to Rome where he died in 46BCE and he was forgotten until the 19th century when French emperor Napoleon the Third resurrected his story after commissioning the first archaeological digs of the battle site and had a statue erected at the site in Vercingetorix's likeness.
The Gauls' fight against the Romans became the basis of the Franco-Belgian comic book series Asterix which sees a village in what is now modern day Brittany (a region in the west of France) resisting the Romans post Alesia. The village is able to stand up against the Romans thanks to a magic potion brewed by a wise old druid called Getafix for the village warrior Asterix, a short, blonde moustached warrior who with his best friend Obelix (who fell into a cauldron of the potion as a child and thus has a permanent effect from it) fight off against Romans as well as go off on adventures away from the village like Britain, Egypt and even pre-colonial America! The first story, written by Rene Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo was published in October 1959 and was serialised in Pilote magazine until July 1961 after which is was compiled into a complete story the same year. More stories followed with new tales being made to this day!