כיבוש גמלא על ידי הרומאים

One of the last steps in the suppression of the rebellion in Galilee, and perhaps the most dramatic, took place at Gamla. Why did Vespasian put so much effort into conquering a city in a relatively remote location? There are two reasons for this, which I explain in the film. According to the writings of Josephus, Vespasian's troops included three legions: the Fifth, Tenth, and Fifteenth, eighteen thousand soldiers. To them were added 22 infantry units, 6 cavalry units, and another 11,000 foot archers, 2,000 cavalry from allied garrisons, and 3,000 of Agrippa's men. A total of fifty-five thousand soldiers. Gamla could not contain a population larger than 5,000 people, of whom only about 1,000 were warriors. If we add to these 4,000 warriors from outside, then the situation is that there were about 5,000 warriors in Gamla. In addition to the enormous number of soldiers, the Roman army had powerful artillery. The maximum effective range of the Roman machine guns was at the end of the Deir Koruch spur, the positions were outside the firing range of the defenders. About the course of the battle, an explanation of the military procedures and the difficult result, everything in this film. For more information in Hebrew https://historicalsitesinisrael.com/%... For more information in English https://historicalsitesinisrael.com/e... Yehuda Holtzman