On January 10, 49 B.C., on the banks of the Rubicon River in southern Gaul (near the modern-day city of Ravenna), Julius Caesar and the soldiers of the 13th Legion waited and weighed their options.

A superb general and politician, Julius Caesar (c.100 BC – 44 BC / Reigned ... In January, 49 BC, he led his troops across the Rubicon River into Italy and started civil war.

Forty-nine years before Jesus of Nazareth was born in Bethlehem, Roman general Julius Caesar and his army crossed the river Rubicon—the waterway separating Gaul (modern-day France) and Italy.

In ancient Rome, crossing the Rubicon River with an army was kind ... In "The Life of the Deified Julius," Suetonius writes that Caesar quoted an Athenian playwright as he crossed the river ...

Commentators love to compare Donald Trump’s norm-breaking ways to Julius Caesar’s momentous decision to “cross the Rubicon” in 49 B.C.E. By leading his troops over the Rubicon River and ...

A superb general and politician, Julius Caesar (c.100 BC – 44 BC / Reigned ... In January, 49 BC, he led his troops across the Rubicon River into Italy and started civil war.