Caesar bridges the Rhine
55 BCE · Event
To awe the German tribes, Caesar's engineers throw a timber bridge over the Rhine in ten days — a river no Roman army has ever crossed. He marches over, burns some villages, marches back, and demolishes the bridge behind him: the point was never conquest, but the demonstration that Rome can reach anywhere.
On these timelines: Caesar's Conquest of Gaul, Roman History, France, Germany, Master
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