In January 49 BC, Caesar crossed the Rubicon river ( the frontier boundary of Italy ) with only one legion and ignited civil war.

::: Julius Caesar is reputed to have said Alea iacta est after having crossed the Rubicon river with his legions.

* January 10, 49 BC: Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river, precipitating war with Rome.

Caesar relates that he crossed the Rhine again to punish the Suebi for sending reinforcements to the Treveri.

In autumn 196, Albinus proclaimed himself Emperor ( Imperator Caesar Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Augustus ), crossed from Britain to Gaul, bringing a large part of the British garrison with him.

The date of the election, which had already been set, made it impossible for Caesar to stand unless he crossed the pomerium and gave up the right to his triumph.

Because the course of the river has changed much since then, it is impossible to confirm exactly where the Rubicon flowed when Caesar and his legions crossed it.

He fought in Gaul ( 51 BC ) and Spain ( 49 BC ) under Julius Caesar, who, after he had crossed over to Greece ( 48 BC ), sent Calenus from Epirus to bring over the rest of the troops from Italy.

In 55 BC, Julius Caesar was preparing for an invasion of Britain, when several Germanic tribes, including the Ubii, crossed the Rhine river.

The emblem of the legion was the Capricorn, as with many of the legions levied by Caesar., or the crossed thunderbolts of Jupiter.

Caesar had crossed the Rubicon River in the year before, starting a civil war.

Faced with the alternatives of returning to Rome for the inevitable trial and retiring into voluntary exile, Caesar crossed into Italy with only one legion, implicitly declaring war on the Senate.

Caesar crossed the Rubicon accompanied by the thirteenth legion to take power from the Senate in the same way that Sulla had done in the past.

When Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC, thus starting a civil war, Sextus ' older brother Gnaeus followed their father in his escape to the East, as did most of the conservative senators.

When Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC, thus starting a civil war, Gnaeus followed his father in their escape to the East, as did most of the conservative senators.

On hearing this news, Caesar rallied his army in haste and crossed the Alps, still buried in snow, into central Gaul.

Political tension increased, and two years later, in 50 BC, Caesar crossed the Rubicon, which precipitated the Roman civil war of 49 – 45 BC, which he won.

In 49 BC, Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his army, thus declaring war, beginning the Great Roman Civil War.

On the 10 < sup > th </ sup >, Caesar famously crossed the Rubicon, starting the Civil War.

That revolution ultimately came in 49 BC, when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River, and began a civil war, which overthrew the Roman Republic, and created the Roman Empire.

Letting his guard down because winter was approaching and assuming that Caesar would not cross any time soon, Bibulus was caught by surprise when on the evening of November 6, 49 BC, Caesar and his fleet successfully crossed the Adriatic, landing at Palaeste.

Already during the campaign of Caesar, the Tencteri and Usipetes crossed the Rhine for a cattle raid of the territories the Menapii, Eburones and Condrusi, giving Caesar an excuse for new military intervention in the area.

Caesar occupied the town first and defeated the Germans before its walls, slaughtering most of the German army as it tried to flee across the river ( 1. 36ff ).

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

After the battle, the Romans quickly bridged the river, thereby prompting the Helvetii to once again send an embassy, this time led by Divico, another figure whom Caesar links to the ignominious defeat of 107 BC by calling him bello Cassio dux Helvetiorum ( i. e. “ leader of the Helvetii in the Cassian campaign ”).

Furthermore, Suetonius writes that the haruspex Spurinna warns Caesar of his death which will come " not beyond the Ides of March " as he is crossing the river Rubicon.

Caesar reported that the northern Belgae, approximately in the area of modern Belgium, were less economically developed, and militarily dangerous people, similar to the people east of the Rhine river.

Caesar discovers the stronghold of Cassivellaunus near the Thames river and routs the Britons there.

* Emperor Augustus sent his stepson Gaius Caesar as army commander to the East and made a peace treaty with Phraates V on an island in the river Euphrates.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

Over the next few days the river flooded, destroying the bridges and leaving Caesar stranded without food on the opposite side of the river from Afranius, who had a large stockpile of food and supplies.

Despite this, Caesar constructed boats and transported a part of his cavalry force over to Afranius ' side of the river.

Caesar stalled the negotiations while his troops fortified their positions behind the river with a sixteen foot high rampart and a parallel trench lined with ballistas ; his legionaries were backed by mercenary archers and slingers and Caesar had also hired and / or conscripted a contingent of Gallic horseman from the Remi.

As the embassy returned, Caesar officially refused their request and warned them that any forceful attempt to cross the river would be opposed.

Caesar obliged them and surprised the Helvetii as they were crossing the river Arar ( modern Saône River ).

The river is perhaps most known as the place where Julius Caesar uttered the famous phrase " alea iacta est-The die is cast.

Suetonius's account depicts Caesar as undecided as he approached the river, and attributes the crossing to a supernatural apparition.

In anticipation of the following spring, Kesselring ordered the preparation of a new defence line, the Caesar C line, behind the line of beachhead running from the mouth of the river Tiber just south of Rome through Albano, skirting south of the Alban Hills to Valmontone and across Italy to the Adriatic coast at Pescara, behind which 14th Army and, to their left, 10th Army might withdraw when the need arose.

Like Caesar at the Alesia, he prepared for an attack from Basra, using the Tigris River, by building defensive positions further down the river.

The Ubii were a Germanic tribe first encountered dwelling on the right bank of the Rhine in the time of Julius Caesar, who formed an alliance with them in 55 BC in order to launch attacks across the river.

Caesar refused, and marked his defiance in 49 BC by crossing the Rubicon with a legion to march on Rome.

Upon crossing the Rubicon, Caesar, according to Plutarch and Suetonius, is supposed to have quoted the Athenian playwright Menander, in Greek, " the die is cast ".

Between his crossing of the Rubicon River in 49 BC, and his assassination in 44 BC, Caesar established a new constitution, which was intended to accomplish three separate goals.

* 49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.

This development ultimately enabled Julius Caesar to cross the Rubicon with an army loyal to him personally and effectively end the Republic.

When Julius Caesar broke this rule, leaving his province of Gaul and crossing the Rubicon into Italy, he precipitated a constitutional crisis.

** January 10 – Julius Caesar leads his army across the Rubicon, which separates his jurisdiction ( Cisalpine Gaul ) from that of the Senate ( Italy ), and thus initiates a civil war.

In 49 BC, it was the location where Julius Caesar gathered his forces before crossing the Rubicon.

Within four years of Crassus ' death, Caesar would cross the Rubicon and begin a civil war against Pompey and the legitimate government of the Republic.

Julius Caesar took possession of it immediately after crossing the Rubicon.

He was present while Caesar deliberated whether to cross the Rubicon and start the war.

On 10 January, Caesar led his army across the Rubicon River, crossing from the province of Gaul into Italy.

*" Alea iacta est " (" The die is cast "), which is reportedly what Caesar said at the crossing of the Rubicon.

* The crossing of the Rubicon by Julius Caesar in 49 BC with his legions.

In 49 BC, supposedly on January 10 of the Roman calendar, G. Julius Caesar led one legion, the Legio XIII Gemina, south over the Rubicon from Cisalpine Gaul to Italy to make his way to Rome.

In 49, at the very beginning of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, the Eighth Legion accompanied Caesar across the Rubicon into Italy.

Forced to choose either the end of his political career, or civil war, Caesar brought Legio XIII across the Rubicon river and into Italy.