In 49 B.C. on the banks of the Rubicon, Julius Caesar faced a critical choice. To remain in Gaul meant forfeiting his power to his enemies in Rome. Crossing the river into Italy would be a ...

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 ...

This Jan. 10, let's take a look back at the alleged deeds of Julius Caesar before and after he started a civil war with his crossing of the Rubicon and question whether the imperator ever really ...

CROSSING THE RUBICON. Story by L.C.Norton • 1mo. January 10th, 49 B.C. Cisalpine Gaul. Gaius Julius Caesar is marching southbound to the river Rubicon with an army. He pauses.

Julius Caesar finally decided (probably on Jan. 10, 49 BC) to move his army across the Rubicon. He moved on Rome with such speed that his opponents panicked and fled the city.

“Crossing the Rubicon” has come to mean taking a course of action from which there is no turning back. ... Gaius Julius Caesar (pronounced roughly as GAH-ee-oos YOO-lee-oos KUY-sahr) ...

The Catilinarian conspiracy ended in failure, but it gave a way for Julius Caesar to cross the Rubicon and become a dictator some 10 years later. And this led the Roman Empire to take an irreversible ...

President Trump’s actions are more far-reaching than Julius Caesar’s ... the republic died, even as Augustus claimed to have restored it. But for historians, Caesar’s crossing the Rubicon, ...