His entire career was about crossing lines... Vide Rubicon.

"He's a habitual line stepper.." -Charlie Murphy

Imagine caring about Germans back then

Die wacht am Rhein lol

That's how Caesar doth rolleth.

"SPQR wants to know your location!"

Britons: "I can't believe you've done this."

They're just america but with horses instead of tanks then?...

No, America got hit first

See how you would like someone killing your civilians who did them no harm

Professional heavy infantry is something else I'll tell you. Especially when they have 8 years of experience fighting unsymmetric warfare

Jupiter blesses the roman infantry.

@@othosos They probably even said: AVE IOVIS OPTIMVS MAXIMVS Translation: "hail Jupiter"

@@testchannelpleaseignore2452 asymmetrical

"Caesar build a wall"

Pretty awful? I think they arrived with weather on a good day

Caesar blames British weather for him failing to invade successfully, Saying most of his ships were destroyed by gales & storms . 🤔 Yet he came back with treble the amount of men and ships as first time... More men !? Did he believe they could do battle against the weather ? Or was it really because his ships were destroyed by the same Celts that chased him out of England thd 1st time. Thst would explain him bringing more men.

SickLid lmao

kev WHUFC The second time he crossed in the spring.

Typical English summer weather, ammirite?

Raelyks 😂 so true

Defensive?? expanding their territory, conquering so many kingdoms that the Romans had the largest empire ever known . How could they call that 'defensive ' !?

Silent Dawn being the only country to use them? North Korea uses them almost monthly. Just because people don’t die from the explosions doesn’t mean they aren’t exploding. Get a clue.

@Silent Dawn you know what I didn't even notice the OP dig as the yanks , even tho it was highlighted 😮 lol,, Its because I'm too fixated on the nonsense about Caesar supposedly defeating the Catuvellauni in England,, Although I dont disagree with you, I'm also ashamed that UK government followed the yanks into middle eastern war all about WoMD when they didn't have any,, Tony Blair lied his arse off to us about all that, now bc of USA & Britain stuck up their ass , we now have terrorists again , we managed to stop the IRA & sorted things out , just to have them replaced by IS 😕 all governments piss me off tbh , all liars & cheats , they start shit & its us the ordinary people that always suffer the most..

@@iamtheoysterking according to America's info , N.korea have only had 6 nuclear tests in the past 13 years. The last was 2017 . America started to deploy nukes in South Korea from 1958 !! Just in the following 10 years they had deployed 950 nukes by 1967... I only did usa first 10 years in Korea bc I'd be here forever listing everything the us has done .

We need to defend the oil these other people are sitting on. They are now our enemies.

The sinking of the maine.

Literally russia still to this day. Hasn't advanced in their thinking at all since its formation.

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@@rayhoodoo847 One might think that applies more to the modern roman empire - the USA

What do you mean by "our" your acestors are probably, germanic, norse french or even romans. Unless you are a scot

@@vladescu3g Whilst Britain has been conquered many times and as such has had rulers from all over most of the people of the island have origins on the island. Eventually, if you go back far enough of course there has to have been a first human in Britain from somewhere, obviously. Most people in this country if they take a DNA test will receive results that are almost completely British. For example, my results came back as England + Wales: 78% and Ireland & Scotland: 15%. I only have 4% from Norway and 3% from Germany. These results seem to be fairly typical from the people I know.

@@vladescu3g Why is it that people still imagine bigass population replacement wrapping up within one or two generations in a pre-industrial environment? That was _not_ possible! Language and culture spread a hundred times faster than DNA, especially among people who don't value them much to begin with (which is the exact reasons why barbarians were so quick to adept Roman customs, even without any external pressure-they cared nothing for their own ways once they saw something they thought superior).

You're a brit but you're almost certainly not related to the Britons that lived in Britain back then. You are probably Anglo-Saxon or have Norman heritage

@@Pilgrim1st You didn't understand. A modern day British person is NOT related to these celtic Britons most likely. Most British people now days are Anglo Saxon or Norman. Unless you're Scottish

Do bear in mind that the med is incredibly calm.

Full of shit

But dr who is real tho right? Right?

@@myes344 Yes

Scottish and Irish are entirely delusionial.

Only Ireland. And it's clovers and leprechauns singing twiddly-dee-potatoes

Caesar probably believed that the germans wouldn't cross the rhine.

Ceasar had Biggus Dickus Energy

Let's be honest. He probably wanted them to revolt. The Belgae were not truly subdued bt that point. He needed an excuse to go to war with them.

more like he was a power hungry leader with a well trained and vastly superior military.... german and gaulic tribes were not even close in military organization and tactics

This the same man who invaded rome with half a legion.

I would rather like to see this magnificent bridge left alone and not to be destroyed though, it would be an good display of Roman Engineering, which, frankly, unmatched until late Medieval.

@@Verpal Probably wouldn't have lasted long enough for us to see anyway though

I believe that with all the modern tools at our disposal today, no one can replicate a 10 day bridge build over the Rhine. It's been tried at about the same spot with backhoes, engineers, and ships specially built for this purpose. Can not do.

@@tampabaycanuck64 It has been tried? Mind to shred some light on the event? I found it hard to believe that with modern day prefabs, bridge cannot be build in 10 days. I do suspect whether an experiment across the Rhine is possible, if at all, a 10 day make shift bridge will probably cut shipping along the Rhine off, which is impossible in modern days. Unless there are some army experiment before WWI /WWII, I suppose the German military would be interested to experiment on the possibility of makeshift bridges.

I read your comment, and it almost killed me! ;)

His BFF Brutus even got him a special gift.

Never bring a toga to a knife party.

too soon man, too soon :(((

et tu fren et tu

Lol

All the WMDs. Also, greek fire doesn't melt roman concrete.

I think their teeth and most of their cuisines falls under that category.

and oil...for fueling all the WMDs of course

Scout Master around today britain has a few nukes

WMD. Weapons of Magical Destruction.

Gauls and Britons are the same Celtic People so yeah.

Hiraghm yeah trading with an active enemy makes you an enemy as well.

Thats probably why they were waiting for the romans on the cliffs?

Caesar's preparations surely caught the attention of someone to warn the britons.

Yeah, reminds me of a certain global hegemon telling other nations to stop trading with a rising powerhouse. The answer is always the same "buy all our stock for higher and sell yours for lower, then we won't need to deal with others". Sadly it often ends in a three letter agency doing a coup. Still, not like people are blind and dumb, we all see the aircraft carriers and military supplies ready just off the coast by said hegemon.

I think Caesar wrote so much about the Germans that bridge is because he had nothing to write about defeating the British. Because he never did, in fact he got his ass kicked out twice

@@kevwhufc8640 well he had more success than them in battle. he wasn't right to fight but i can see he was a good commander.

@@alimertc was Caesar a good general, absolutely yes! He was a genius military tactician , & he had a great self belief too, as proven when he defeated Pompey who outnumbered Caesar massively. And his tactics to defeat Vercingetorix were fantastic. He was also a great politician, and leader he was loved by the people of Rome. He gave important jobs to people he knew were best for the job, wheras previous senators would only considered a person as long as he came from the right family. Even if he was rubbish at the job. Caesar made sure the poorest people had free grain. He's one of my favourite people from history. But, he never conquered Britain he did not defeat the Catuvellauni . After almost 25 years working around the area where Caesar supposedly defeated the Catuvellauni , I've not found a single piece of evidence, over 33000 Roman's, their horses , wagons baggage carts , all marched 100s of miles from the south east coast of Kent , up north through Sussex middlsex, London, crossing the Thames into Hertfordshire & Essex, all without stopping to dig any defensive ditches, without losing a single buckle or coin , leaving no traces of destruction, no burning inside or out of the Celtic settlement, not even remains of fires for cooking ( which would have been huge, to feed so many) ditches & burning, both leave evidence which would show up when using our geo-phys machines. Hopefully I've helped you understand some of the work involved, and why we conclude Caesar didn't leave Kent let alone defeat the catuvellauni, who continued to expand & take the very land in Essex that Caesar was supposed protect. That's why they didn't come back for another 100 years.

@@kevwhufc8640 Yeah I know he didnt conquer any part of England, but he didn't return with complete failure or losing half of his army. Most historical persons were great generals, but great generals mostly. Most had bad politic decisions, needles wars, genocides, pileaging towns. Some people blemish their military skills because they dont like their aggresive tactics, others exalt their personality and other abilities because their military skills. You need to see things different, one person can be a great general and can have all the other bad attributes in the world. or not. We all have our bad sides and good sides, its only natural.

*screw this lets invade russia instead

*A little while later* Hitler: "ITS FUCKING COLD"

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It's a known fact that craftsmen are supplied with sustenance from wood alone.

Craftsmen are termite shapeshifters, it is known.

is legit my father is caroenther I never see him packing lunch when he go to work

Craftsmen can have a little wood, as a treat.

I've got wood

"We did it Caesar! We saved Rome!"

​@@HearthArrowandKey *Rome burns in the background* Nero: The *FUCK*

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

Never forget Han shot first

Quantum Shooter Everyone does that.

Who...who claims this?

so does every country.. You know military management usualy called " department of defence, ministary of defence" or etc.

+The Mailman Yeah perhaps but in WW2 japan attacked pretty out of the blue for once, I didn't recall the mongols spent much time crafting pretexts to invade, I may be wrong but also the Korean-Japanese war was started without much of an excuse. Or maybe is jsut the fact I'm no historian and they all crafted pretexts were symply lost from mainstream knowledge.

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I think he meant that by seeing the recurring theme later on. At first it might seem plausible but later on it seemed like a trick

​@@madavarams268It could have been a trick. But it could also be a realization of "we proved that we can inflict painful losses to each other, so let's awkwardly leave each other be."

Only Other way around

More like Gallipoli lol

Reverse d day

Lost in a Paradox: Caesar did not invade Britannia: he made two incursions; one in 55BC, the other in 54BC.

"propoganda" (smh)

Xd

lol please learn history before you post something u not certain about

@@dixxon28 Hes right actualy. Whilst Napoleons Egyptian Campaign failed to colonize Egypt, Caesars campaign failed to colonize Britain or even establish a foothold. Yet both Campaigns made great reading (Propoganda) back at home.

You might be able to get a career in animating blocks moving around on a flat surface.

Astro Doto That really does sound interesting. Good luck. I'm sure you'll do well and enjoy it. Are you thinking of becoming a historian or does it just sounds interesting?

im studying history and if u don't want to be a teacher, don't study history as there is nearly no jobs for a historian.

Awww shiiitt. I was in the same shoes when i was going off to study at uni. I love history but my advice is to keep it as a hobby. As said by others there are not really many jobs for historians.

zourz I'm doubling in playable media and history, hoping to work in historical games and movies, is this a good idea?

"Medius Socialus" stfu and take my like

The Wall!

Sounds like a high action adventure I'd expect from the original Ducktale!

perhaps this is what Kanye West spoke of when he said, "I keep it 300 like the Romans".

Legitimately would make an awesome movie

that sounds like an ancient Dunkirk.

Why tf has no one made a movie or a series about this? Rome HBO remains the best series but that's more about the politics

Ironic, considering how Rome fell.

Rome's logic: So long as there's lands to conquer, we don't need to worry about our own economy

@@DJChiefX197 Ceasar wasn't there, when Rome fell. Despite the heavy irony about his mistrust towards incoming tribes looking friendly, when Romans could not keep up with the pressure, the same atrocities were performed upon the romans, by the invaders. This is how ancient word worked. And mostly, realpolitik is still used today in middle east, Tibet or Ukraine: even now, nobody is eager to discuss with "the legions". Managing to fend off local britons with such a reduced warpower is further prove about how well organized, well equipped, well disciplinated the roman army was. Laugh at them as much as you want, but it was the roman warfare to spread the ellenic concepts throughout continental Europe, then to Britain, and eventually to America, building the very concept of "western civilization" based upon written laws, compartimentalization, organization, sense of superior purpose that generated the technological leap of the past three centuries. Ferocity was there of course, but don't think Ceasar was more brutal than Alexander or whoever other general in the ancient times. War is a dirty thing always, especially when you lose, incident that Ceasar always managed to avoid, even when in inferiority of numbers. This goes to his merit, not detriment.

Its time

@@ilmaio Oh shut up. What is it with murderer worship these days fuck me

*Roman Empire, had a Great Geography Lesson!!! NO JOKE!!!* *That TRIP was NOT a FaiLure!!!!* *It was a MASSIVE LEARNING for the Roman PeoPle & Government!!!*

If i was a roman and saw those walls I'd assume the whole island was a massive castle on the sea

"F*ck is he expecting us to march on Tartarus or something?"

This HAS to be done! that would be amazing.

I'd especially LOVE to see the battle of alesia

***** Exactly! Rome on HBO was an excellent series but I always hated how they started it off on the end result of Alesia instead of any real part of the actual battle itself.

General James Ironwood they did that with almost every battle. Still loved the show though. I read the Gallic Wars in Ciaran Hinds voice whenever Caesar talked

Pershing III {General Ironwood} yes. that gave me goosebumps. I was beginning to dislikr caesar. but at the end he got me again.

I came I came I *CAMEEE*

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Rest in peace dear old friend

I came. I saw. I left.

Veni vidi vici

Thousands of riders coming out of nowhere and singlehandedly winning the day against previously impossible odds? Lord of the Romans, indeed! XD

+General James Ironwood Lol ikr? gave me goosebumps :P

I guess those cavalry's bad luck on the channel turned out to be pretty useful in the end or later on..

Vienna in 1683 anyone?

+mRRandak Poland stronk.. good one!

YourMoraleBooster The Iceni shall crush the Romans as we have done for several campaigns during sleepless weekends!

More like Europa Barbarorum II you RTW 2 pleb.

rome 1 > rome 2

Sachiel The Angeru EB2>EB1>other RTW 1 mods>RTW 1>RTW 2

Jimmy De'Souza It is very historically accurate, but of course, not perfect. You are exaggerating about EB1, or you just played a very early version of it. Because Dosidataskeli were removed already in 2009.

You're lucky. Mine is still probably doing an ecological and conservation study that'll be done next year, before they re-contract another person who won't repair the bridge, because they'll need to do a new study and... Anyway, that's how there's been a footbridge closed for repair for the last ten years, and no one is allowed to build a new one. If it goes on much longer it might get declared a heritage building, and they won't even be allowed to repair it, except with original materiel.

Agreed.

aka the Nancy Pelosi of Rome

Cesar the very definition of arrogant.

Lol whatever you say to justify it

Yeah, it was very sensible. Also, he was arrogant

Don't mistake confidence for arrogance, didn't know you guys were there and knew him so well.

Yes

Right, I'm gonna redo this political stance in Civ V.

That's like classical Romans

sparta, I've been calling the US 'new rome' since I was a kid in the 80's. The parallels are obvious, and everyone on the planet, with the possible exception of Israel, is really looking forward to their fall.

You're really misreading the situation if you think everyone on the planet is looking forward to their fall. Maybe in your far left socio-political circle, but most people are smart enough to see how they benefit from a strong American nation, just as most back then realise how they benefitted from a strong Roman nation. You read about war because it's the part of history that interests you, but you don't read about the trade routes, roads, laws, technological innovations, aqueducts, etc that came with Rome and, once Rome fell, were largely neglected or vanished completely.

@@Dorianin1 not really. Fall of US means growth of socialistic powerhouses like china and russia. Socialism and freedom don't go hand in hand. And i like my freedom.

I believe the language of the Britons was relatively similar to Gallic languages which Romans were quite familiar with.

Grigor Stoyanovich Was thinking the exact same thing. They've never met them before so they shouldn't be able to communicate

Grigor Stoyanovich The Romans must have an 'interpreter'. Someone who's studied and/or have experienced trading with the tribe they would be conquering. Most of the time, they get this interpreter from the last people they have conquered.

That's true.

If the Britons were trading with the Gauls then some of them probably spoke the Gaelic tongues.

Europa Universalis. Manufacture justification..

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Fight yes, slaughter civilian and burning villages. Maybe not so much

+Freek Mulder You're no fun.

*jumps in the water*

I wouldn't. I'm not going to kill innocent people. If you want to see new places, then go in peace. Don't kill the locals.

Is not like the locals weren´t the first to attack them, also good luck going anywhere in the era without getting enslaves or killed.

Better if you ask me. Vsauce is rambling very often and never gets truly into the matters whilst still making it entertaining and memorable.

Ever heard of Extra History?

Vsauce videos are boring, he loves the sound of his own voice

hey vsauce, robbery here

Totally forgot about Vsauce.

Not really, It's what most would've done in that situation.

@@Sirius1914 no

Caesar had like 3000 men 300 would be about 10% of his expedition. Makes sense he'd want to find them

@@BlitzerXYZ Two legions woul be around 10000, even if they were understrength, it would still be like 5000-7000.

Sera wasn't the concept of a CB a Roman thing anyway.

CB ?

eKo HaMZa Cassus Belli,Cause of War

Brits had chemical weapons!

Kev Caratacus its s reference to a game

Looks like they had every reason to fear our friend Caesar.

What achievement? Half of the things in Caesar's commentaries were obviously made up. The entire point of them was to be propoganda spread throughout the republic. They are famous and epic because Caesar wanted them to be.

PrimevalTimes They couldn't be made up. It's impossible, as some relatives of Caesar's enemies were with him. Had him said a lie, they'd have known

I don't understand why a channel about history didn't care about that achievement, was really frustrating to hear.

Try building a bridge over the Rhine in ten days now

Blobicus Gaming He said that the Britons conducted trade with some Gaulic tribes, so maybe they warned them Caesar was coming? After all, the Gauls hated Rome.

@@frodoswaggins3132 yes Caesar slaughtered 1/3 of all the gauls so if any of them were in britain I'm sure they would've told them about how dangerous caesar was

Aye aboot as tough as a pair o old boots

They were tough indeed, they rucked across the ancient world and destroyed many foes. But honestly the Gauls weren't wimps either. The Romans distinguished themselves by being organized and more importantly disciplined.

@@paulinotou How did they ruck in North Britain ? The famous "Mons Graupias" eh

@@paulinotou Modern romans are/were people like Bud Spencer or Antonino Cannavacciuolo (super fat and though mofos)

Rombizio In those days life was short and hard.

true.

Matroska Yorgavishk truth has been spoken

Matroska Yorgavishk true but I'm kind of surprised he didn't scout ahead the island before launching his invasion.

No not really. Beating a bunch of people that are more farmers than soldiers, that fighting is as much more a sport than a winner take all struggle isn't much of an accomplishment.

It's true. Just like Alexander, he was more interested in pushing the boundaries than actual conquering or ruling. Kind of a military visionary murderer explorer. LOL

Alan Lambert jajajajajja love you m8 band of brothers memories comes to mind

The cool thing is that 1945 CE (11945 HE) would be EXACTLY 2000 years later than 55 BCE (9945 HE)

*I'd Prefer ( Fuk Off )!!!*

I like the British answer at Arnhem.

self-liker

no

- "Ahooh! ahooh! ahooh!", - whatever that means.

Justin Martyr romans were white aswell

CONQUERN.

Dimachaerus eyyyyy! 🔥🔥🙌🏻

Augustus shakes his head.

You know we can never know what really happened. We could take Historia's word this might have been genocide, but he might have done the right thing because we simply don't know. People like barbarians for example where often conniving and quite primitive when it came to morals. If they were wasting time in order to bring reinforcements across the Rhine in order to defeat Caesar sounds extremely plausible to me and there where examples of this done in the past. Sometimes perhaps one has to respect the judgement of an experienced general like Caesar was in making this decision to kick them out of Gaul by force one way or another.

The same country that also has a senate? And also has chariot racing aka nascar. USA is quite similar to Rome in many ways i feel.

We aren't *THAT* arrogant.

You would be hard pressed to find a country that invaded countries on the other side of the world and had zero ability to threaten it and claim self-defense. Colonial empires at least claimed they are bringing civilization and not that they are defending themselves, they weren't that full of shit.

@Atom Alexandria: Nope, the Third Reich claimed it was defending German people in Poland and Czechia, and then that they are defending against the Communists.

Marko Antic France in Africa

That would be a pretty good explanation

I'm sure you don't know who he is, but in your vlog playlist, the thumbnail you're wearing a very David Bain sweater 😅

You just reminded me of the Civ Battle Royale.

Oh my god, he just went in. Follow after him!

at least I got chicken....

Lerious Jenkinus