How Caesar Won The Great Roman Civil War 49–45 BC

Four mutinous legions were silenced by a single word. Caesar crossed the Rubicon with one legion, found Rome abandoned, and spent the next six years surviving catastrophes that should have ended him, a besieged palace in Alexandria, a near-encirclement in Africa, and a final uphill battle he later admitted almost killed him. We break down every pivotal moment of Rome's most insane civil war: the genius at Pharsalus, the disaster in Egypt, the mutiny dissolved by pure force of personality, and the victory that came one javelin throw from never happening. Which moment actually decided it?