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Caesar's Rhine Bridge, an 1814 portrait by John Soane The Italian cross-section of the bridge Reconstruction in Koblenz of a Roman pile driver, used to build the Rhine bridges. Caesar's bridges across the Rhine, the first two bridges on record to cross the Rhine river, were built by Julius Caesar and his legionaries during the Gallic War in 55 ...
One notable example was Julius Caesar's Bridge over the Rhine River. This bridge was completed in only ten days and is conservatively estimated to have been more than 100 m (328 feet) long. [1] [2] The construction was deliberately over
One of the most notable examples of military bridge-building in the Roman Republic was Julius Caesar's bridge over the Rhine River. This bridge was completed in only ten days by a team of engineers. Their exploits in the Dacian wars under Trajan in the early 2nd century AD are recorded on Trajan's column in Rome.
Caesar's Rhine Bridge. Early Roman bridges were wooden, including one constructed by Apollodorus and the Pons Sublicius, the oldest bridge in ancient Rome, and they were probably common across northern Europe and the Tyrrhenian coast; [15] however, because of their lack of durability few have survived to the modern day. [28]
Among the engineering feats achieved by Caesar's army during this time, which Mamurra may have been a part of, include the rapid construction of a bridge over the Rhine in 55 BC, [7] the designing and building of a new kind of ship for the second expedition to Britain in 54 BC, [8] and the double circumvallation of Alesia in 52 BC. [9]
Caesar immediately attempted to capture a bridge that ran across the Betis river, however the Pompeians on the other side arrived and forced Caesar and his men back across the river. Caesar then realized that making more attempts would both delay him and only drain his forces; he decided to construct a new bridge for his men to cross.
Traffic navigates the Bourne Rotary on Tuesday during the morning commute. A $1.8 million upgrade to the rotary planned by the state Department of Transportation has raised questions with the ...
The first known were commissioned in 44 BC by Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Three Greek geographers, Zenodoxus , Theodotus and Polyclitus , were hired to survey the system and compile a master itinerary; the task required over 25 years, and the resulting stone-engraved master itinerary was set up near the Pantheon .