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World Service,08 Jan 2012,10 mins

Crossing the Rubicon

Witness History

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Over 2000 years ago Julius Caesar made a decision which changed European history. That decision to cross a river and lead his army towards Rome was a point of no return for the ambitious governor of Gaul.

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