Helvetii

Lies of Julius Caesar about the war with the Helvetii

(ORDO NEWS) — Excavations carried out in 2015 revealed that Julius Caesar was the consummate liar and propagandist of his time. In the first chapters of his memoir Notes on the Gallic War, Caesar tells how he defeated the Helvetii, a powerful Celtic tribe that inhabited the northwestern part of modern Switzerland. The Helvetii, according to Caesar, decided to settle in Gaul; they plundered and burned settlements, killed people and advanced rapidly. Caesar boasts that he came to the defense…