Quote Originally Posted by caesar44
wow
caesar was a failure , he was beaten repeatedly , repeatedly
this is new history
caesar was beaten repeatedly...
you could have an argument until now
let us rewrite history - caesar did not conquered gaul , did not beat all of his enemies including pompey the great , did not took egypt with 3,000 man , did not invade britania (for the only time in 100 years) , did not rule an empire alone tor the first time ever , did not became a common hero as a dictator , he did not establish an empire for centuries , no no , he was beaten repeatedly by the gauls , by the britons , by ahenobarbus or calvinus or something like that and most of all - by the descendants of scipio in mauritania or numidia or africa
oh plutarch , cicero , saliustius , appianus , dio cassius , paterculus ets
did you not noticed that caesar was beaten tepeatedly

i rest my case

by the way , caesar was kidnapped by pirates in 75 , you could add it to his defeats

LOL!! I liked the 75 pirates thing. I don't think anyone is trying to say Ceasar was a failure. Ceasar was a great general but he was bad at politics and had very little tact when it came to pushing his domestic agenda forward. He tried to change to much all at once. To Ceasar's credit he was a big success when it came to destroying the republic