Caesar Marches on Rome (49 B.C.E.)

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Narrates the weeks after the Rubicon: town after town opening to Caesar, Pompey's evacuation of Italy, and the standoff at Brundisium, told from Caesar, Cicero's letters and Plutarch.

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Caesar's march on Rome after the Rubicon and Pompey's flight from Italy.

Video by Historia Civilis, played through YouTube's embedded player.

Part of Julius Caesar, Battles, Roman History

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