In 47 BC, Julius Caesar sailed to North Africa to mop up the remaining forces of his longtime rival, Pompey the Great, and the anti-Caesarian factions of the Senate. Pompey himself had been killed the ...
In September 52 BC, Julius Caesar had a problem. He was deep inside Gaul (modern day France) besieging his last great Gaul enemy, Vercingetorix, at the latter’s fort of Alesia. With his force of ...