Julius Caesar, Roman General
by Folger Shakespeare Library
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Julius Caesar, Roman General
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Folger Shakespeare Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Gaius Julius Caesar (100 - 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. In military campaigns to secure Roman rule over the province of Gaul (present day France) he gained much prestige. The Roman senate, fearing his power, ordered him to disband his army, but Caesar refused, crossed the Rubicon River, returned to Rome with his army, and made himself dictator. On a subsequent campaign in Asia, he reported to the senate, "I came, I saw, I conquered." Caesar was assassinated by his friend Brutus and others on the Ides of March in 44 BC. One of a set of twelve engravings of Roman emperors on horseback, Netherlands, 17th century.
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