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A powerful tale of war, romance, and one of historys most desperate gambles
Julius Caesar was nothing if not bold. When, in the wake of his defeat of Pompey at Pharsalus his victorious legions refused to march another step under his command, he pursued his fleeing rival into Egypt with an impossibly small force of Gallic and German cavalry, raw Italian recruits, and nine hundred Spanish prisoners of war-tough veterans of Pompeys Sixth Legion.
Cleopatras Kidnappers tells the epic saga of Caesars adventures in Egypt through the eyes of these captured, but never defeated, legionaries. In this third volume in his definitive history of the Roman legions, Stephen Dando-Collins reveals how this tiny band of fierce warriors led Caesars little army to great victories against impossible odds. Bristling with action and packed with insights and newly revealed facts, this eye-opening account introduces you to the extraordinary men who made possible Caesars famous boast, I came, I saw, I conquered.
Praise for Caesars Legion
A unique and splendidly researched story, following the trials and triumphs of Julius Caesars Legio X. . . . More than a mere unit account, it incorporates the history of Rome and the Roman army at the height of their power and gory glory. Many military historians consider Caesars legions the worlds most efficient infantry before the arrival of gunpowder. This book shows why. Written in readable, popular style, Caesars Legion is a must for military buffs and anyone interested in Roman history at a critical point in European civilization.
-T. R. Fehrenbach author of This Kind of War, Lone Star, and Comanches

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Also by Stephen Dando-Collins

Caesars Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesars
Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome

Neros Killing Machine: The True Story of Romes
Remarkable Fourteenth Legion

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ATLAS

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1. The Roman World, First Century B.C.-A.D. First Century

2. Alexandria, 48-47 B.C.

3. Rome, 46-44 B.C. (showing route of Triumphs)

The Roman World, First Century B.C.A.D First Century

Alexandria 4847 B.C.

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Rome 4644 B.C.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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This book would not have been possible without the immense help provided over many years by countless staff at libraries, museums, and historic sites throughout the world. To them all, my heartfelt thanks. Neither they nor I knew at the time what my labor of love would develop into. My thanks, too, to those who have read my research material as it blossomed into manuscript form and made invaluable suggestions.

I wish to record my gratitude to several people in particular. To Stephen S. Power, senior editor with John Wiley & Sons, for his continued enthusiasm, support, and guidance. And to Wileys patient production editor, John Simko, who has had to chase me halfway around the world at times, and copy editor Bill Drennan. To Richard Curtis, my unrelenting and all-conquering New York literary agent, who was determined from the start that the stories of the legions should and would be a series of books, and has been the general of the campaign to make it so.

And my wife, Louise. Quite simply, without her, I would not be who I am, be where I am, or do what I do. As Pliny the Younger was to say of his wife, Calpurnia: All this gives me the highest reason to hope that our mutual happiness will last forever and go on increasing day by day.

AUTHORS NOTE

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Read most modern histories of Rome or biographies of the lives of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra and you will be told that Caesar dallied in Egypt with Cleopatra for several months in 48-47 B.C., following his defeat of Pompey the Great at the Battle of Pharsalus. What those books dont tell you is that dalliance was a bitter, life-or-death struggle for Caesar that lasted for seven long months against a well-equipped, well-led, and determined Egyptian army that had just murdered Pompey and was bent on also eliminating Caesar.

This book tells the story of those desperate, bloody months, when Caesar was cut off from reinforcements and supplies and apparently ignored by his deputy Mark Antony at Rome, when Caesars life and career were on the line day after day after day.

Most importantly, this is also the story of the little more than nine hundred men of the 6th Legion, the key troops in Caesars little force with him in Egypt, hardened Spanish soldiers with seventeen years of military service under their belts. For, without these men, Cleopatras kidnappers, Caesar would not have survived the war in Egypt or gone on to Pontus to achieve one of his most famous victories, after which he would boast, I came, I saw, I conquered.

This is the third book in this series of histories of individual legions of ancient Rome, following my previous books on the subject, Caesars Legion, the story of the 10th Legion, Julius Caesars favorite unit, and Neros Killing Machine, the history of the remarkable 14th, a legion that in the course of its career went from the shame of being wiped out to fame as the victors over Queen Boudicca and her rebel British army.

Prior to the 2002 publication of Caesars Legion, never before had a comprehensive history of an individual Roman legion been published. Because ancient history is often seen as a subject too dry to be interesting, a subject to be left behind in the schoolroom, in writing these books I made the conscious decision to make the histories of the legions as interesting and as exciting as I could without losing sight of the facts.

In my American histories, books such as Standing Bear Is a Person, I have gone to great lengths to include copious endnotes and detailed citations, because the sources are many and varied, and because the story affects the lives of people today, descendants of the people Ive written about, and I owe it to them to support the details Ive put on paper with relevant attributions.

These legion histories are different. I chose not to load them down with footnotes, often a barrier to readership by newcomers to history. In the place of footnotes, on the pages of these legion books I tell you which classical author was the source of a conversation, speech, or claim I document. And in the appendices youll find, in addition to a detailed list of my secondary sources, extensive summaries of the lives and works of my primary classical sources, with comments on their accuracy and usefulness.

In writing these books I have relied heavily on classical sources. Even then, Caesar and other classical authors colored and propagandized their personal accounts of the events they describe. Recorded Roman history is full of holes, and modern authors usually can only fill those holes with informed speculation. Just the same, some obvious clues abound in ancient texts if the reader is prepared to look for them, and to look for them in more than one source.

I have also brought to light several aspects overlooked by other authors. One is the reenlistment factor. In the imperial era each legion generally discharged its men en masse when their twenty-year enlistments were up and filled their places with mass enlistments of new recruits. These discharge and reenlistment dates vary by legion. Read Tacitus in particular and you will be able to calculate the discharge and reenlistment years for virtually every legion and the Praetorian Guard for several hundred years. Pinpoint one date, and then work forward and back for the otherstwenty years in the imperial era, sixteen years prior to it. By going back to the year an Augustan legion was founded, you can even establish in which year its enlistment period was upped from sixteen to twenty years by Augustus between 6 B.C. and A.D. 11. (Not surprisingly, the Praetorian Guard was the last unit to make the change.) The foundation dates of some legions are easier to establish than othersfor the survivors of the large number of units founded by Caesar in his massive 49 B.C. conscription program, for instance.

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