Battle in 43 BC between Senatorial and Triumvir forces
For the namesake battle which took place in 193 BC, see Battle of Mutina (193 BC).
Battle of Mutina
Part of the War of Mutina
Map of the movements of the various legions during the campaigns leading up to the Battle of Mutina
Date
21 April 43 BC
Location
Northern Italy
Result
Senatorial victory
Belligerents
Roman Senate
Mark Antony's forces
Commanders and leaders
Aulus Hirtius † Octavian Decimus Brutus Albinus
Mark Antony
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Roman Republican civil wars
1st Servile
2nd Servile
Social
Bellum Octavianum
Sulla's
Sertorian
3rd Servile
Caesar's
Mutina
Liberators'
Bellum Siculum
Perusine
Pompeian–Parthian invasion
Actium
1939 depiction of Octavian at Mutina
The Battle of Mutina took place on 21 April 43 BC between the forces loyal to the Senate under Consuls Gaius Vibius Pansa and Aulus Hirtius, supported by the forces of Caesar Octavian, and the forces of Mark Antony which were besieging the troops of Decimus Brutus. The latter, one of Caesar's assassins, held the city of Mutina (present-day Modena) in Cisalpine Gaul.
Six days earlier, the Battle of Forum Gallorum had ended with heavy losses on both sides and the mortal wounding of consul Pansa. Hirtius and Octavian then launched an attack on Antony's camp, seeking to break the siege. Amid bloody fighting, Hirtius was killed, leaving the army and republic leaderless. Octavian saw action in the battle, recovered Hirtius' body, and managed to avoid defeat. Decimus Brutus also participated in the fighting with part of his forces locked up in the city. Command of Hirtius' legions then devolved to Caesar Octavian. Decimus Brutus, marginalized after the battle, soon fled Italy in the hopes of joining fellow assassins Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus; he was, however, captured and executed en route.
After the battle, Mark Antony decided to give up the siege and retreated westward along the via Aemilia, escaping the enemy forces and rejoining the reinforcements of his lieutenant Publius Ventidius Bassus. The battle brought the brief War of Mutina to a victorious end for the Republicans allied with Caesar Octavian, but the situation would change completely the following autumn with the formation of the Second Triumvirate of Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus.
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