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    Caesar Ascending-The Ganges
    Caesar Ascending-The Ganges
    Caesar Ascending-The Ganges
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    Caesar Ascending-The Ganges

    By R.W. Peake

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    In the fifth book in the bestselling alternate history series, Caesar Ascending-The Ganges, with his treaty solidified with the Pandya Kingdom of southern India, Julius Caesar sets his sights on the next step of his quest to supplant the only name who precedes his as the greatest general in history, the Macedonian King Alexander. By reaching the sacred Ganges and taking the fabled city of Palibothra in the process, Caesar will have succeeded where Alexander could not. To do this, he must use every bit of his skill, not just in waging war but in statecraft, beginning with the other great kingdom of southern India, the Chola, the bitter rival of young King Nedunj and his Pandya, led by King Karikala.

    After negotiating a safe passage through the Chola Kingdom, Karikala’s son Crown Prince Divakar is provoked into initiating battle with Caesar’s 10th Legion as they are marching into Cholan territory as part of the negotiated agreement. Using young King Nedunj’s knowledge of Divakar’s impetuosity, when the Crown Prince launches an unprovoked attack on the most veteran army in the known world, he is killed by the powerful but volatile substance naphtha, used by Rome to combat the ancient world’s most potent superweapon, the armored elephants of the Indian kingdoms. The ramifications of his grisly demise will reverberate, with a king driven mad with grief focusing his blame and hatred on a giant Roman Centurion, blaming Titus Pullus for the death of his son.

    After many errors, Caesar must decide between returning the thousand miles back to Pandya as the first leg of what will an arduous journey back to Rome or risk another mutiny by pressing forward. Throughout this extraordinary campaign, Caesar has been able to rely on Titus Pullus and his Equestrians, but that loyalty will be tested as never before if Caesar tries to lead his army beyond the Ganges.

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    PublisherR.W. Peake
    Release dateAug 18, 2021
    Caesar Ascending-The Ganges
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    R.W. Peake

    I am a 63 year old retired Infantry Marine, born and raised in Texas and currently living on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. I have been writing since my first novel, written at the age of 10, when my friends and yours truly fought off the Soviet hordes, who just happened to pick my block to launch their invasion. That was their big mistake.But like a lot of dreams, it got sidetracked until recently, when I decided to focus my passion on an era and subject that interested me a great deal. Like my characters in Ancient Rome, I have served as the pointy tip of the spear of our nation's policy, and it is with this perspective that I tell the story of Titus Pullus and his friends.Marching With Caesar-Birth of the 10th Legion was my first published novel, and is the first in a completed series that covers the career of Titus Pullus, his adopted son Gaius Porcinianus Pullus, grandson Titus Porcinianus Pullus, and his great-grandson Gnaeus Volusenianus Pullus. The most recent release is Volume XIX, Marching With Caesar-Catualda the Usurper.I also have a completed alternate history series, Caesar Ascending, that imagines a world in which Gaius Julius Caesar survives the Ides of March, embarks on his historical campaign against Parthian...then keeps going. Originally it's a bid to outstrip the Macedonian King Alexander by reaching the Ganges River, but evolves into a decade-long campaign that finds Caesar and his Legions marching to the end of the known world in the form of the mysterious Islands of Wa, modern-day Japan.Finally, in 2020, I began The Titus Chronicles, with Volume I titled Eagle and Wyvern, which tells the story of a descendant of Titus Pullus, (though he's unaware of any connection), named Titus of Cyssanbyrig, who at the age of fourteen answers the fyrd sounded by the Saxon King Alfred, marching with Alfred and his army to confront the Danish King Guthrum, culminating at the Battle of Edington. Blessed with the same prodigious size and strength as his ancestor, young Titus learns he is the recipient of a darker gift, and in his first battle earns the nickname The Berserker.The Titus Chronicles mark the first of an extended genealogy of the original Titus that will extend across the ages as the story of a line of men who have been born and bred for war, and are witnesses to some of the great historical events of the ages.

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