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I am currently reading Cesar's books "Gallic wars" and he is often talking about two kinds of fortified camps, one built before battle to protect legionniaries' stuff and one built "to stay in winter". I guess that the second is something more"definitive". Could you explain the differences ?

by /u/Pab_Strategos in /r/AskHistorians

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