This week (Jan. 10 by the Roman calendar) in 49 B.C., Roman proconsul Julius Caesar and his army crossed the Rubicon River, which marked the boundary between the Roman province ...

We stood by a statue of Julius Caesar on the eastern side of the river. The statue looks West across the Rubicon toward Rome. Imagine those few days leading up to Caesar's decision to cross the river.

Only then did Caesar cross the Rubicon River, entering Italy near Ravenna on January 10, 49 B.C.E. Caesar’s men followed their general, even if it meant civil war against their fellow citizens.

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.

CROSSING THE RUBICON. Story by L.C.Norton • 6mo. January 10th, 49 B.C. Cisalpine Gaul. Gaius Julius Caesar is marching southbound to the river Rubicon with an army. He pauses.

Alessandro tells me that the river, its bridge, its history, and Caesar’s story means more than I could understand. “This crossing has changed the course of history,” he says.

Italy (WHTM) — 2073 years later, it’s an idiom that’s still in use. “Crossing the Rubicon” has come to mean taking a course of action from which there is no turning back. It’s an early ...

It’s been said that “crossing the Rubicon” means you’ve passed the point of no return. That may have been the case when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River in 49 B.C. , but not for me.

Only then did Caesar cross the Rubicon River, entering Italy near Ravenna on January 10, 49 B.C.E. Caesar’s men followed their general, even if it meant civil war against their fellow citizens.