The Eburones were a Gallic tribe which inhabited northeastern Gaul (now the southern Netherlands, eastern Belgium, and the German Rhineland). In 57 BC, the Eburones and other Belgae tribes contributed 40,000 troops to an alliance against the Roman general Julius Caesar during the Gallic Wars; they joined 60,000 Bellovaci, 50,000 Suessiones, 50,000 Nervii, 15,000 Atrebates, 10,000 Ambiani, 25,000 Morini, 9,000 Menapii, 10,000 Caleti, 10,000 Velocasses, 10,000 Viromandui, and 19,000 Aduatuci. In 53 BC, Caesar defeated the Eburones and burned every building in their territory and drove off all of their cattle. The Eburones all died of hunger in the winter, disappearing from history.