![]() According to the law of the Roman Republic, any provincial governor leading troops across the border back into Italy would be declared a public enemy. Despite its appearance, crossing this humble river would have serious consequences. Its significance to Rome lay in its location, marking the official border between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul, the region south of the Alps governed by Julius Caesar. The Rubicon is, in reality, little more than a stream. ![]() ![]() On January 10, 49 B.C., on the banks of the Rubicon River in southern Gaul (near the modern-day city of Ravenna), Julius Caesar and the soldiers of the 13th Legion waited and weighed their options. This article appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine.
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