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This always fashionable episode of History Daily

originally aired on January 10, 2022. It's March 17th, 45 B.C. in the Roman province of Hispania and what is now southern Spain, two armies are locked in a fierce battle.

On one side are 70,000 Roman soldiers loyal to the late General Pompeii, these men want Rome to remain a republic,

a representative democracy with power resting in an elected Senate.

On the opposing side is an army of a Maverick general named Julius Caesar, man many consider a threat to the republic.

Four years ago, Caesar launched an attempt to bypass the democratic process and establish himself as dictator of the Roman

Empire.

Pompey stepped forward as the defender of the republic, the man who would protect Roman democracy

from the power-hungry Caesar.

But a year after his armies marched on Rome, Caesar defeated Pompey on the field of battle.

With his great rival dead, Caesar considered the Civil War I and the path to uncontested power clear.

But more resistance soon emerged in the shape of Pompey's two sons.

Intent on avenging their father's death, they assembled an army in hispania to

overthrow Caesar. Determined not to be outmanewered, Caesar sailed west with his

legionnaires, sweeping across hispania and pushing the Republican

forces back until eventually the two sides met here outside the town of Munda.

Now amid the clashing of swords and the constant reign of deadly arrows,

Julius Caesar is struck by a rare moment of self-doubt. If he loses this battle,

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