Bruce's History Lessons: Caesar crosses the Rubicon
Bruce's History Lessons: Caesar crosses the Rubicon.
This week (Jan. 10 by the Roman calendar) in 49 BC, Roman proconsul Julius Cesar and his army crossed the Rubicon River, which marked the boundary between the Roman province of Gaul and Italy proper. In doing so, Caesar defied the Roman Senate, which had warned him that to cross the Rubicon with .
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