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Julius Caesar Part 2: Rendezvous With Cleopatra

Real Dictators

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Caesar Is the Aggressor

Cicero is a respected conservative and the greatest orator rome ever had. But cicero decides, no, i've got to go with pompey. And that's the way it's remembered in roman history. The eleda campaign of april to august 49 b c is,. in modern termsa lightning war of blitzgrig Pompey has left two of his most capable deputies there - aphranius and patraus. His loyalists also hold the kay port of massilia, modern day marseilles. Caesar's shock troops have already secured the qay through the pyrenees. He marches three legions to the frontier in just 27

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