![]() As many as sixty of the country's leading noblemen participated in the treacherous act. The assassination took place at a hall next to Pompey's Theatre on the Ides of March, a religious holiday now synonymous with the downfall of Caesar. The plan relied on ambushing Caesar while traveling to a senate meeting. Less than five years later, Cassius Longinus and Marcus Brutus led a conspiracy to assassinate the dictator. But his policies in government only served to reignite old rivalries and suspicion within the Senate. Upon returning to Rome, the remaining senators declared Julius Caesar as dictator for life. On August 8, 48 BC, Caesar decisively beat his rivals at the Battle of Pharsalus. His political enemies led by Pompey the Great immediately fled the capital to regroup in the east. In January 49 BCE, he famously crossed the Rubicon River with the Legion XIII. Knowing this was likely a trap, Caesar decided to return home, but at the head of an army. After ten years of campaigning, the Senate ordered him to return to the capital and disband his army. His legions also became the first Roman soldiers to cross the English Channel into Britain. Caesar destroyed the Gallic rebellion led by Vercingetorix at the Siege of Alesia. He rose to power and fame after conquering the entire region of Gaul (present-day France and Belgium). Gaius Julius Caesar was the most famous general and politician of the Roman Republic. Today on March 15, 44 BCE, Roman senators ambushed and stabbed Julius Caesar to death-beware, the Ides of March!
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