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 ...

Forty-nine years before Jesus of Nazareth was born in Bethlehem, Roman general Julius Caesar and his army crossed the river Rubicon—the waterway separating Gaul (modern-day France) and Italy.

“Julius Caesar, when he decides he wants to be emperor of Rome, that’s when he makes the decision to cross the Rubicon River and then it’s under the sword like from here on, it’s fight and ...