Gauls

the chief branch of the great original stock of Celts. Migrations among the Gauls about 397 B. c., and their pa age of the Alps, first bring the Gallic nation into the region of history. Having cro ed the Alps Gaur; irre they fell on the Etruscans, defeated the Romans at Allia (890 B. ©.), and sacked and burned Rome, the capitol, however, being saved by Camillus.