Comparing Julius Caesar To Yitzhak Rabin

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Hello, this essay will be about comparing Julius Caesar to Yitzhak Rabin. One of the reasons I chose to choose Rabin was due to his role in the military. I wanted to compare the two men because they both had experience leading troops and were successful in doing so. I will go over them in different ways such as how they died and other aspects of their lives. Now that this brief introduction is complete I will begin.

Julius Caesar was a Roman general and politician. He was born July 13, 100 B.C; his father was a politician and his mother from the plebian class. Caesar rose to political prominence during the revolt of Rome's allies. He was related to Gaius Marius who was the revolt's leader, and he chose to join his faction. In 65 B.C Caesar restored the triumphal monuments of Marius which were a political success on his part. Caesar was also a general and had many victories against the people of Gaul. He also won the civil between him and his rival Pompey who was murdered by the pharaoh Ptolemy. On March 15, 44 B.C he was stabbed to death which led to 13 years of civil war in Rome.
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He was Prime Minister from 1974 to 1977 and became Prime Minister again from 1992 to 1995. Rabin was born March 1, 1922, his mother and father were Russian Zionist pioneers. At the beginning of his military career, he took part in operations behind the lines against the Vichy French in Syria and Lebanon on behalf of the British and in defense of Palestine. Rabin was involved in anti-British underground activity. He was caught and was sentenced to six months in a detention camp. After his release, he was promoted to deputy commander of the elite Palmach. He continued to move up in the military after that. Rabin became Prime Minister in 1974 but lost power in 1977 due to a coalition crisis. He became Prime Minister again in 1992, but in 1995 he was fatally

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