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Apr 2022
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46. Bridging the Rhine

Trevor Fernes
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Julius Caesar takes the fight to Germania. To do so he will need to demonstrate Rome's incredible engineering abilities. Crossing one frontier isn’t enough for Caesar though and he soon has designs on a second even more outlandish exploit that same year.    Correction #1: I got a little carried away talking about horses in this episode. I say that horses had ... Show More
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