Nov 10, 2014
The astounding battle between improper-emperor Julius Ceasar, and his esteemed past colleague, Cneius Pomeius Magnus the Great went somewhat similar to the battle of 300, where 300 greek troops fended off several thousand of their opponents. On august 9th, the battle based on pure strategy and precision, and timing took place.
It was said “Pompey had 48,000 infantry, and 7000 horses; Ceasar had 22,000, and 1,000.” However despite these numbers, Julius Ceasar, an old friend of Pompey the Great’s, would not give up his Empire, and his people to any senator or old friend, regardless of their motive. Although the senators were rushing Pompeius magnus to rush into battle, with his men’s gladius’ raised, Pompey the Great wished to keep a more safe strategy, and decided to wait until Caesar's men got tired, then to rush his camp with every horse and infantry unit he had.
Although Pompey the Great knew Caesar better, and had an ideal strategy for taking him down, the senators rushed him into swinging in for an attack. Although Caesar fought for the freedom for his men and empire, Pompey was pressured into fending him off by corrupt senators, and eventually crippled to his brutal death. On the very day, Pompey the great sent his troops to rain hell on Caesar. However well he planned, his rain of hell didn’t really go as planned.
With his Infantry and Horses, he sent rushes to pin Caesar’s men down, but Caesar had a strategy that won the war. Pompey’s divert and conquer strategy would have held up nicely, if Caesar hadn’t spent forever being Pompey’s friend, and closest ally. Caesar knew exactly what Pompey was going to do, and left horses to the right and to the left of his armies, in case of flanking. These horses were back-a-ways so that the invading troops couldn’t see them, and that when they came upon line of sight, Caesar’s infantry jumped out of the brush, concealed, and took on the oncoming troops. As this all was eventing, Caesar’s horses swarmed in to finish off his troops.
After slaying/capturing Pompey’s flankmen, Caesar’s men joined with the front line to finish off the rest of Pompey’s army. After this, Pompey had few horses, and thus, Caesar’s Horses were slaying Pompey’s front line one by one, by one. While Caesar’s horses did this, his Infantry finished off the flaked groups of army men.
During this war, every gladius thrust into the heart of a soldier, by one of Julius’ men, the higher the odds of his victory in this war were.
During this war, every gladius thrust into the heart of a soldier, by one of Julius’ men, the higher the odds of his victory in this war were.
With all of Pompey’s men faded away, he fled to several locations, and finally temporarily settled down in Egypt, with hopes of returning with Egypt’s men and Resources. With Caesar’s victory, he chose to spare the senators of Rome, who would eventually, literally, stab him. As an old friend of Caesar, Pompey referred to him as a “man of great goodness and clemency.” Caesar returned to rome on march 16th, unprotected by his men and infantry. Cicero spoke of Caesar in bold words: “The towns, salute him as a god.”
Before Caesar crossed the rubicon to get to rome, and to get to Pompey, and to battle the epic battle which took place that day, Caesar spoke to his men, as comrades, and not as pawns, and the first word Caesar spoke during that speech, was “Commilitones!”- “Fellow soldiers.” It was said by many of Caesar’s men that his words were those of equality, and those of inspiration, and soldiers in the audience were usually astounded by the way he worded every sentence. They were said the be blown away spoken by the man, because he spoke as one of them, and they saw how he had truly gone through the hardships they had. They had seen him fight alongside them, they had seen him face death, they had seen him ride in on his horse, and redeem these broken and otherwise failed battles, and they had seen him refer to them as “Milites,” or “less gracious commanders.”
Then on january 4th, year 49, Caesar crossed the rubicon, a tiny stream bordering rome, that, to this day, is lost. While he crossed the rubicon, many of his legion was still settled in gaul, and could not come to his aid. Caesar sieged city upon city, and gathered more of an army as he went along. Caesar did not have troubles finding recruits in italy, seeing as the saw him as a champion of freedom, and open their gates for him willingly.
Julius Caesar conquered city by city, and when he drew near, pompey retreated his mass of legions away from Rome. As pompey left, a wave of politicians and aristocrats followed him. After Caesar entered Rome on march 16th, the pompeian armies were organized in greece, africa, and spain.
On August 49th, the pompeians gave in, and all spain came over to Caesar. Afterward, they gave away the locations of the Pompeians, and Caesar went to conquer them as well.
