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The Romans were experts at fortifications and siege warfare.

Whenever a Roman army would camp for the night, a large part of the army would build a wooden fort which would usually be finished in a day. A Roman army on the march were described as “moving cities”.

One example is the Siege of Alesia where the Romans built a wall to trap the Gauls then built another wall to protect themselves from new Gallic reinforcements who came to break the Romans’ siege.

It was a siege where the besiegers were sieged by both new besiegers and the besieged but the besiegers won the siege anyway.