Armançon

The Armançon in Semur -en- Auxois

The Armançon is a river in France, which runs in the Burgundy region. It rises in the municipality of Meilly -sur- Rouvres, drained generally in a northwesterly direction and flows after 202 kilometers of the municipal boundary of Migennes and Cheny as a right tributary of the Yonne. On his way to the Armançon crosses the department Côte-d'Or and Yonne and touches above Flogny -la -Chapelle on a length of about one kilometer, the Aube department in the neighboring region of Champagne -Ardenne. In the upper and lower reaches of the Armançon the Canal de Bourgogne accompanied ( German: Burgundy Canal ), the channel only in the middle part goes into the valley of the Brenne.

History

The Battle of the Armançon was a cavalry engagement between Julius Caesar's Germanic cavalry and the cavalry of Vercingetorix in late summer 52 BC by the river Armançon in the wake of the Gallic rebellion under Vercingetorix. The hired by Caesar Germanic cavalry was able to repel the Gallic cavalry. To avoid being encircled by the Romans, Vercingetorix 14 km moved back to Alesia, where Caesar in just six weeks, a 15 km-long siege of Alesia, completed and in addition a 21- km-long defenses against the approaching united armies (about 70,000 men ) of the was built by the Gauls. In the ensuing Battle of Alesia, the Romans gained supremacy over Gaul.

Places on the river

• Thoisy -le- Désert
• Semur -en- Auxois
• Tonnerre
• Flogny -la -Chapelle
• Saint -Florentin
• Brienon -sur -Armançon
• Cheny
• Migennes