March of his army to the coast, From August 24 to Sept. 10. Embarkation of the last convoy Sept. 21. [Sidenote: Distribution of the Legions in their Winter Quarters.] XI. Cæsar had no sooner arrived on the continent than he caused his ships to be brought on ground, and then held at Samarobriva, (_Amiens_) the assembly of Gaul. The defective harvest, caused by the dryness of the season, obliged him to distribute his winter quarters differently from the preceding years, by spreading them over a greater extent.[421] The number of his legions was eight and a half, because, independent of the eight legions brought together at Boulogne before the departure for Britain, he had no doubt formed five cohorts of soldiers and sailors employed on his fleet. The troops were distributed in the following manner: he sent one legion into the country of the Morini (_to Saint Pol_), under the orders of C. Fabius; another to the Nervii (_at Charleroy_), with Quintus Cicero;[422] a third to the Essuvii (_at Sées, in Normandy_), under the command of L. Roscius; a fourth, under T. Labienus, to the country of the Remi, near the frontier of the Treviri (_at Lavacherie, on the Ourthe_).[423] He placed three in Belgium,[424] one at Samarobriva itself (_Amiens_), under the orders of Trebonius; the second in the country of the Bellovaci, under M. Crassus, his questor, at twenty-five miles from Amiens (_Montdidier_); the third under L. Munatius Plancus, near the confluence of the Oise and the Aisne (_at Champlieu_). The legion last raised[425] among the Transpadans repaired with five cohorts, under the orders of Titurius Sabinus and Aurunculeius Cotta, to the Eburones, whose country, situated in great part between the Meuse and the Rhine, was governed by Ambiorix and Catuvolcus. It occupied a fortress named Aduatuca (_Tongres_).[426] This distribution of the army appeared to Cæsar a more easy manner to supply it with provisions. Moreover, these different winter quarters, with the exception of that of M. Roscius, who occupied the most peaceable part of Gaul, were all included within a circle of a hundred miles radius (148 kil.). It was Cæsar’s intention not to leave them until he knew that the legions were firmly established and their quarters fortified. (_See Plate 14_, the sites of the winter quarters.)