This man's early military career relied on the sacrifices of Pansa Caetronianus and Aulus Hirtius, who roused his exhausted column to smash into a disorganized pursuit led by this man's major rival, leading to key victories at Forum Gallorum and Mutina.
This man's early military career relied on the sacrifices of Pansa Caetronianus and Aulus Hirtius, who roused his exhausted column to smash into a disorganized pursuit led by this man's major rival, leading to key victories at Forum Gallorum and Mutina. Using a series of grain shortages to achieve total power, this figure's deeds are memorialized by a namesake Alpine "trophy" and a funerary inscription, the Res Gestae. This man's wife built up a group of military advisors including the ancestors of Galba and Otho, and probably arranged for the death of Marcellus. This husband of (*) Livia employed a capable general who defeated Sextus Pompeius at the Battle of Naulochus, and a not so capable general, Publius Varus, who was crushed by Arminius at Teutoburg Forest. Marcus Agrippa won a victory for this man that turned when half of the defenders' quinqueremes abruptly turned and fled, enabling this ruler to triumph over an ally with whom he had earlier won the Battle of Philippi against Cassius and Brutus. The victor at the Battle of Actium, FTP, identify this component of the Second Triumvirate with Lepidus and Mark Antony, a nephew of Julius Caesar who established the Pax Romana as the first Emperor of Rome.
This man's early military career relied on the sacrifices of Pansa Caetronianus and Aulus Hirtius, who roused his exhausted column to smash into a disorganized pursuit led by this man's major rival, leading to key victories at Forum Gallorum and Mutina.
Gaius Julius Caesar {Augustus} or Gaius {Octavius} Thurinus or {Octavian}us