The Ticking Clock of Urban Warfare

The powers behind Ptolemy the 13th were not going to take this lying down. Caesar had brought with him only a single understaffed legion of some 4000 infantry and around 800 cavalry. The men were on the way but they were weeks out. So if the ministers were planning to drive Caesar away they knew they needed to do it before the rest of his army arrived. They whipped the local Alexandrians into a frenzy declaring that Caesar was planning to make Egypt a province depriving them all of the liberty and wealth to which they had grown accustomed. Nearly the whole city rose up and revolt and besieged the royal palace which was held by Caesar and his men. But no matter how hard