Caius Julius Caesar

Also known as: Caesar · Role: consul · First appears: Book I · Chap. II

Life events

• Caius Julius Caesar lost much of his fleet, infantry, and almost all cavalry during his first British expedition.(Book I · Chap. II · 📍 Britain)
  • “Here, having provided about eighty ships of burden and fast-sailing vessels, he sailed over into Britain; where, being first roughly handled in a battle, and then caught in a storm, he lost a considerable part of his fleet, no small number of foot-soldiers, and almost all his cavalry.”
• Caius Julius Caesar’s cavalry was defeated by the Britons.(Book I · Chap. II · 📍 Britain)
  • “Caesar’s cavalry was, at the first encounter, defeated by the Britons”
• Caius Julius Caesar defeated the Britons and drove them into flight.(Book I · Chap. II · 📍 Britain)
  • “In the second engagement, with great hazard to his men, he defeated the Britons and put them to flight.”
• Androgius surrendered the Trinovantes to Caesar and gave him forty hostages.(Book I · Chap. II)
  • With: Androgius
  • “In the meantime, the strong state of the Trinovantes, with their commander Androgius, surrendered to Caesar, giving him forty hostages.”
• Caius Julius Caesar captured the fortified town of Cassobellaunus after severe fighting.(Book I · Chap. II · 📍 town of Cassobellaunus)
  • With: Cassobellaunus
  • “Guided by them, Caesar at length, after severe fighting, took the town of Cassobellaunus, situated between two marshes, fortified by sheltering woods, and plentifully furnished with all necessaries.”

Book I · Chap. II

• with Lucius Bibulus (They were co-consuls.) “was consul with Lucius Bibulus”
• enemies with Cassobellaunus “Thence he proceeded to the river Thames, where a great multitude of the enemy had posted themselves on the farther side of the river, under the command of Cassobellaunus”
• with Androgius (Androgius's commanded state surrendered to Caesar.) “the strong state of the Trinovantes, with their commander Androgius, surrendered to Caesar, giving him forty hostages”
• with Labienus (Labienus was a Roman tribune serving in Caesar's campaign.) “Caesar’s cavalry was, at the first encounter, defeated by the Britons, and there Labienus, the tribune, was slain.”
• liege: Androgius (Androgius's state submitted to Caesar.) “the strong state of the Trinovantes, with their commander Androgius, surrendered to Caesar, giving him forty hostages.”

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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.