Julius Caesar
In Our Time: History
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Caesar Wins the Civil War
Pompey's army had been working with for eight years, a very loyal veterans, but very experienced. He could keep going longer than anybody else. Pompeys survivors flee to africa, set up a new base there. Caesar has to follow them to africa and win that battle - but again, he cannot destroy the senatorial faction. They move to spain, set up base there. Big climactic battle in forty five and we often think that's the end of the civil war. And that's the point at which caesar goes back to rome. It's his last campaign. But pompey’s younger son, sextus, survives
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