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Julius Caesar (Part 4)

How to Take Over the World

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Caesar's War in Egypt

After the battle, pompey flees. He is without an army, and he becomes a refugee on the run. Caesar starts chasing him across the eastern mediterranean. The local rulers there welcome pompeY and offer him shelter. But the second he gets ashore, they kill him. They saw that caesar was winning, and they wanted to score some points with ta man who is surely soon to become the undisputed ruler of rome. After putting down the most significant of these rebellions in quick and decisive fashion, caesar wrote back his shortest and most famous war report: veni vidi vici, i came, i saw, i conquered.

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