Caesar 🏛️Crosses the Rubicon🌊

Julius Caesar

🏛️ Crosses the Rubicon 🌊 

Feb 1, 2019 - This video describes the the campaign of Julius Caesar in Italy, from January to March 49 BC, against the forces of the roman senate.
After crossing the Rubicon river as a rebel against the republic with one legion only, Caesar swift advance throughout Italy ended with the capture of Rome and the withdrawal of the senate and Pompey forces in Greece.
The events are based on Caesar's own account, with the chronology slightly modified in accordance to other sources and Cicero's dated letters from that period.

Julius CaesarCrosses the Rubicon

(52 to 49 B.C.E.)
https://youtu.be/aRl3lZL1e3Y

"Crossing the Rubicon" is an idiom that means that one is passing a point of no return. Its meaning comes from allusion to the crossing of the river Rubicon by Julius Caesar in early January 49 BC. The exact date is unknown. Scholars usually place it on the night of 10 and 11 January, based on contemporaneous messenger travel speeds.
The phrase made its way into American popular culture to describe a situation where there is no turning back.

Narrator : Christian H Miles ( https://twitter.com/christianhmiles )
Music by Filmstro
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Comments

1. Excellent.  Accurate, eloquent and succinct.Perfectly narrated. I think this would readily lead viewers in to wanting to learn more about the historical detail.
2. Though familiar with the significance of "crossing the Rubicon" since a child reading history books, I never learned about the intricacies and strategies involved in Caesar's consolidation of power in Italy. I love the use of the unit animations to give us a sense of manpower as it ebbed and flowed on either side. Like a table top game with toy soldiers. Great job, and very engaging!
3. I have read several books on Caesar and the late Republic, but these animated events in this video really help me understand why and how Caesar fought or won battles in the Civil War.
4. They say a pictures worth a thousand words but each of your videos are worth at least a chapter of a book on Caesar!!
5. Incredible work! Sincerely, one of the best videos of strategy i've ever seen. The changing of maps, the narrator's voice and the own power of history combine into a really great video! Thanks for your work.
6. Fantastic animations, clear vocals (for once without howling music in the background) and great detailed information and commentary.
7. Wow this is great! I had no idea about any of this. I just assumed he crossed the Rubicon and a few days later walked into Rome…thanks for this. I was thinking when watching this, imagine what so many in the past such as Patton or Napoleon would have paid for such wonderful technology.  My ONLY suggestion would be maybe a 60 second lesson in the beginning from that wonderful narrator explaining a little better what actually led up to the Senate’s anger at Caesar that started all this.  Great job, thanks again & I can’t wait to see more of your stuff.

Caesar in Spain

Part 1

Rome to Ilerda

https://youtu.be/vdAmqjw-PAU

Aug 25, 2019  - 3d animation describing the events that followed after the capture of Rome by Caesar and the retreat of Pompey in Greece in march 49BC, based on Caesar's own account.
With Italy secured, lacking a fleet to cross the sea and follow his enemy in Greece, Caesar decides to take his army to Spain and attack Pompey's loyal legions located there.
Delayed on the way by the opposition of Masillia, Caesar sends forward his legions into Spain.
In June 49BC he resumes his march and joins his men at Ilerda, Both sides  engaged in a 2 months campaign of maneuvering, with Caesar facing attrition and major weather events.

• Music made with Filmstro
• Narrator: Christian H. Miles ( https://twitter.com/christianhmiles )

Comments

1. I watch Kings and Generals, BazBattles, HistoryMarche, Armchair Historian, Invicta, Historia Civilis and any other I can find, and yours is the best. Keep em coming and you WILL have over a million subscribers one day not to mention make a crap load of money.
2. "Armchair Historian" cover most timeline in history, art-work on important people to famous person in history, with model in animation + some face came.
3. "Invicta" cover more story, moments & facts, reinforced by a lot very nice art-work ( some time's simply but full of detail & colors ) from Ancient time to Modern day + some live footage.
4. "BazBattles" forcus more on bird eye views on event & battle formation, with detail terrain & weather in good quality while cover around Ancient time to late Medieval era (with some Game of Thorns)
5. "Historia Civilis" have very simple bird eye views but add some humor to his work, using lots of colorful "square" people and cover some Ancient Greece, then Macedonia & Rome history (so far)
6. "Kings & Generals" have ... "general" bird eye views perspective on event & battle, lots of art-work, using Total Wars footage, great narator, cover more timeline in history, sometimes showing battle in 3D, but with good quality overall.
7. ( I love watching all of there Channels video, but didn't know about HistoryMarche & just found Syntagma hours ago. Still, so far "Syntagma" have the most detailed & impressive 3D model, good looking terrain & transition to bird eye views. I really like the History of both Roman Republic & Roman Empire, and i can't wait to watched more video from this channel.)
8. I'm sorry for this unnecessary long comments, but I'm glad if you read all of them. I wish you have a good day & good fortune in your future.

  

Caesar in Spain

Part  2 

Turning the tide

Jan 7, 2020  The second part of Caesar in Spain series, describing the events from June and July 49 BC near the city of Ilerda, Hispania.
Unexpected weather events place Caesar in a strategic disadvantage against the Pompeian forces. Eventually, Caesar finds a way to cross the Sicoris with his legions,  turning the odds of the campaign in his favor.

https://youtu.be/7fdyqZip6G8

• Music made with Filmstro
• Narrator: Christian H. Miles ( https://twitter.com/christianhmiles

Comments

1. When’s part 3 coming out ? You do a great job explaining and showing us this amazing history
2. Man I'm dying for the sequel, some other channels have the whole Battle of Ilerda but I wanna watch it here in Syntagma. Superb production
3. Guys, even narratives employing minimalist graphics, like Historia Civilis
4.  release only 3 or 4 videos a year now, do you genuinely expect this channel, which pays even more effort in the graphic detail, to work any faster?
5. (Historia Civilis's video on the same event:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypYnqMnh8Ds)
6. I appreciate both channels for quality before quantity.
7. Such amazing quality... makes the wait definitely worth it.
8. There’s been a lot of these historic battle recreation videos as of late. My 2 favorite have been BazBattles and Kings and Generals. I can confidently say you are by far the best content creator in this genre, as you dive much more in-depth into a battle than other channels. Your story telling is exciting and engaging, the 3D animations are incredible, and you can’t help but get into the perspective of Caesar. It’s such a shame that your not posting more regularly as I can see you easily go over 500K subscribers. Might I suggest some click baits to boost your numbers by making some game of thrones battle re-creation. Please let me know if you start a GoFundMe campaign as if be more than happy to contribute for such incredible quality of work.

Caesar in Spain

Part  3
A victory without a battle

The third part of the Caesar in Spain series, describing the  maneuvering campaign of Julius Caesar's around the city of Ilerda and Iberus river against the loyal legions of Pompey,  July -  august 49 BC.  

https://youtu.be/FZ8jIa1jKto

Comments

1. This channel is a Jupiter’s gift to us common viewers ☀️ These videos are rare but so good 👍  Quality over quantity is what YouTube been lacking recently.
2. I’ve listened to this story told dozens of times in Caesars war commentaries audio-book. Feels great finally having a visual representation of the story.
3. This is probably my favorite of all of Caesar's campaigns and one of my favorites campaigns ever. Caesar defeating a large enemy army without ever fighting any major battle is absolutely impressive, and shows how good Caesar actual was.
4. I've seen this story on YouTube before, but never with such detail and such clarity as in your three part series. I never even realized before that this entire campaign was fought with basically no major battles at all. Crazy, though, that the Caesarians could take a defeat at the gates of Ilerda and make it seem like a victory because of how fiercely they fought.
5. These videos are absolutely amazing! The narrative, the graphics! Well done sir.
6. My only objection is that the music is a little to loud, in regards to your own voice.

Julius Caesar Trailer

2020  The trailer for the Julius Caesar series that covered the crossing of Rubicon river, the siege of Brundisium and the Ilerda campaign in 49 BC.

https://youtu.be/2UlLlgX4RPk