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After this, Caesar ordered his six cohorts from his left flank to attack the flank of Pompey's army, the battle was more or less decided.
According to Caesar, the captured Roman soldiers were ordered to pass through under a yoke set up by the triumphant Gauls, a dishonour that called for both public as well as private vengeance.
Caesar sent riders after them and ordered those who were brought back to be “ counted as enemies ”, which probably meant being sold into slavery.
With the Gallic Wars concluded, the Senate ordered Caesar to lay down his military command and return to Rome.
In 50 BC, the Senate, led by Pompey, ordered Caesar to disband his army and return to Rome because his term as governor had finished.
When the Battle of Pharsalus began, Caesar ordered his officers to take Brutus prisoner if he gave himself up voluntarily, and if he persisted in fighting against capture, to let him alone and do him no violence.
Seeing this, Caesar ordered the warships – which were swifter and easier to handle than the transports, and likely to impress the natives more by their unfamiliar appearance – to be removed a short distance from the others, and then be rowed hard and run ashore on the enemy ’ s right flank, from which position the slings, bows and artillery could be used by men on deck to drive them back.
The Sigambri retreat, and Caesar arrives, complaining that the troops had not been kept within the camp, as he had ordered.
* Gnaeus Pompeius is ordered by Sulla to stamp out democratic rebels in Sicily and Africa, while the young Gaius Julius Caesar is acting as a subordinate of Sulla in the east.
Ptolemy is thought to have ordered the death to ingratiate himself with Caesar, thus becoming an ally of Rome, to which Egypt was in debt at the time, though this act proved a miscalculation on Ptolemy's part.
When Julius Caesar marched on Rome with legio XIII, he ordered his legate Gaius Fabius to march on Iberia and to secure the passes through the Pyrenees.
Caesar ordered these men treated with respect and sent back to Afranius.
Upon seeing the treason of Afranius, Caesar ordered his execution upon sight.
Caesar, who needed to pass the bill before his co-consul, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, took possession of the fasces at the end of the month, immediately recognized Cato's intent and ordered the lictors to jail him for the rest of the day.
The move was unpopular with many senators and Caesar, realizing his mistake, soon ordered Cato's release.
He rose to become a senior officer in the Roman army, and as an old friend of Galerius, that emperor ordered that Severus be appointed Caesar of the Western Roman Empire, a post that he succeeded to on 1 May 305.
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.
Caesar instead pulled a play out of the Gallic Wars play-book and ordered his engineers to build walls and fortifications to pin Pompey against the sea.
Pompey ordered a halt, believing that Caesar was now done for and also suspicious of a trap.
They were ordered to Cisalpine Gaul around 58 BC by Julius Caesar, and marched with him throughout the entire Gallic Wars.
After the end of the Gallic wars, the Roman senate refused Caesar his second consulship, ordered him to give up his commands, and demanded he return to Rome to face prosecution.
After an unsuccessful ploy designed to lure the Pompeians down the hill, Caesar ordered a frontal attack ( with the watchword " Venus ", the goddess reputed to be his ancestor ).
Homma's wife appealed to General MacArthur to spare his life ; her pleas were denied, though according to William Manchester in American Caesar, he ordered Homma shot, rather than sent to the gallows, the latter being considered the greater dishonor amongst military men.
To guarantee a perfect blockade, Caesar ordered the construction of an encircling set of fortifications, called a circumvallation, around Alesia.

Caesar and wall
Caesar attempted to build a wall separating Afranius ' camp from the town of Ilerda.
Caesar swiftly reinforced the breach with twelve cohorts under Antony and then counter attacked, re-securing part of the wall and pushing Pompey's forces back.
Rome ( TV Series ) character Ciarán Hinds uses the phrase in episode 5 of the first season " The ram has touched the wall " in the scene where he as Caesar refuses a truce with Pompei Magnus.
Caesar Augustus established a colonia, and built a wall, some parts of which remain.
Julius Caesar is a lava-flooded lunar crater with a low, irregular, and heavily worn wall.
Eventually, in early July, Trebonius ’ s men broke through the wall, and the Massilians approached Trebonius and begged him to stop operations until the arrival of Caesar, where they would agree to capitulate to him.
Now as soon as the army had no more people to slay or to plunder, because there remained none to be the objects of their fury ( for they would not have spared any, had there remained any other work to be done ), Caesar gave orders that they should now demolish the entire city and Temple, but should leave as many of the towers standing as they were of the greatest eminence ; that is, Phasaelus, and Hippicus, and Mariamne ; and so much of the wall enclosed the city on the west side.
Taking advantage of this lack of discipline, Caesar stealthily moved his soldiers into the towers and the wall, and launched a brutal strike.

Caesar and be
The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).
He allowed Alexios II to be crowned, but was responsible for the death of most of the young emperor's actual or potential defenders, including his mother, his half-sister and the Caesar, and refused to allow him the smallest voice in public affairs.
Caesar knew this would be his last stand as they had run out of supplies and with no lines of retreat they would be at Pompey's mercy and likely slaughtered if they lost the battle.
Had the battle actually taken place in the true month of August, when the harvest was becoming ripe, Pompey's strategy of starving Caesar would not be plausible.
Caesar seems to be one of the first authors to distinguish the two groups, and he has a political motive for doing so ( it is an argument in favour of the Rhine border ).
However, on account of the immediate Sassanid threat, Constantius was unable to directly respond to his cousin ’ s usurpation other than by sending missives by which he tried to convince Julian to resign the title of Augustus and be satisfied with that of Caesar.
Most in the crowd believed they knew what would follow ; Constantine and Maxentius, the only adult sons of a reigning Emperor, men who had long been preparing to succeed their fathers, would be granted the title of Caesar.
With nothing more to be feared from the enemy, Domitian came forward to meet the invading forces ; he was universally saluted by the title of Caesar, and the mass of troops conducted him to his father's house.
It may be associated with deception, stealth, and / or treachery due to the ease of concealment and surprise that someone could inflict with one on an unsuspecting victim, and indeed many assassinations have been carried out with the use of a dagger, including that of Julius Caesar.
Another crucial literary source for film noir was W. R. Burnett, whose first novel to be published was Little Caesar, in 1929.
Caesar, Tacitus and others did note differences of culture which could be found on the east of the Rhine.
The concept of Germany as a distinct region in central Europe can be traced to Roman commander Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul ( France ), which he had conquered.
The Helvetii were the first Gallic tribe of the campaign to be confronted by Caesar.
Caesar demanded hostages to be given to him and reparations to the Aedui and Allobroges.
Often regarded as one of the greatest military strategists in European history, Hannibal would later be considered one of the greatest generals of antiquity, together with Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Scipio, and Pyrrhus of Epirus.
', your answer would properly be, ' It is Caesar.
They were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his treatise, The Gallic Wars, and by 391 BC, they were written about by Roman Consul, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, who received seven of them, " canes Scotici ", as a gift to be used for fighting lions, bears, that in his words, " all Rome viewed with wonder ".
In Demonstration ( 74 ) Irenaeus reinforced his view that Jesus was at least 45 with the statement " For Herod the king of the Jews and Pontius Pilate, the governor of Claudius Caesar, came together and condemned Him to be crucified.
Even so, to avoid becoming a private citizen and thus be open to prosecution for his debts, Caesar left for his province before his praetorship had ended.
Caesar proposed a law for the redistribution of public lands to the poor, a proposal supported by Pompey, by force of arms if need be, and by Crassus, making the triumvirate public.
Caesar was still deeply in debt, but there was money to be made as a governor, whether by extortion or by military adventurism.
Caesar had four legions under his command, two of his provinces bordered on unconquered territory, and parts of Gaul were known to be unstable.

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