Winter clothing.

[stevesarak]

They other day I was reading up on Caesars campaigns in Gaul. At one point the Gauls were held up someplace, it was hard winter and it was said, that it was so bad that not even a runner could get through. Caesar gathered his men and marched on the Gauls.

I imagined the Romans in their sandals and short sleeve tunics, basically their summer gear, trudging through the snow. I could image how bad it must have been and how many men they lost to the elements. Then it hit me that they must have had some kind of winter gear.

What was a soldier’s winter gear? Socks, Ponchos, Jackets, what?

Thanks