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Metellus Scipio Marcus Petreius Juba I of Numidia Titus Labienus Lucius Afranius Publius Attius Varus (fleet commander) Vergilius (garrison commander of Thapsus)
Units involved
Legio V (the fifth legion)[1]
Legio VII (the seventh legion)[1]
Legio VIII (the eighth legion)[1]
Legio IX (the ninth legion)[1]
Legio X (the tenth legion)[1]
Legio XIII (the thirteenth legion)[1]
Legio XIV (the fourteenth legion)[1]
Legio XXV (the twenty-fifth legion)[1]
Legio XXVI (the twenty-sixth legion)[1]
Legio XXVIII (the twenty-eighth legion)[1]
Legio XXIX (the twenty-ninth legion)
Legio XXX (the thirtieth legion)[1]
Auxiliary Gallic cavalry
Auxiliary Germanic cavalry
Auxiliary Gaetulian cavalry
Optimates' army Juba's army
Strength
50,000−70,000 (at least 12 legions), 5,000 cavalry
70,000−90,000 (at least 12 legions), 14,500 cavalry Juba's allied troops with 60 elephants
Casualties and losses
Nearly 1,000
About 10,000
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Caesar's civil war
Italy
Rubicon
Corfinium
Brundisium
Spain
Massilia (land)
Ilerda
Massilia (naval)
Tauroento
Carteia
Munda
Corduba
Lauro
Macedonia and Illyricum
Curicta
Tauris
Caesar's invasion of Macedonia
Oricum
Dyrrhachium
Gomphi
Pharsalus
Egypt and Asia
Nicopolis
Alexandrian war
Alexandria
Nile
Zela
Apamea
Africa
Utica
Bagradas
Caesar's invasion of Africa
Ruspina
Ascurum
Thapsus
Hippo Regius
The Battle of Thapsus was a military engagement that took place on April 6, 46 BC[2] near Thapsus (in modern Tunisia). The forces of the Optimates, led by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Scipio, were defeated by the forces of Julius Caesar.[3] It was followed shortly by the suicides of Scipio and his ally, Cato the Younger, the Numidian king Juba, and his Roman peer Marcus Petreius.
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^The date is that of the Roman calendar prior to the reforms of Julius Caesar. By the Julian calendar, it is February 7, 46 BC.
^"Battle of Thapsus | Roman history". Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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