The Battle of Thapsus was a military engagement that took place on April 6, 46 BC near Thapsus (in modern Tunisia). The forces of the Optimates, led by...

Thapsus, also known as Tampsus and as Thapsus Minor to distinguish it from Thapsus in Sicily, was a Carthaginian and Roman port near present-day Bekalta...

right through to the Civil War. He died in Africa right after the Battle of Thapsus in 46 BC. Lucius Afranius was born into a humble family in Picenum...

April 46 BC, Caesar's forces destroyed the Pompeian army at the Battle of Thapsus. After this, military opposition to Caesar was confined to Hispania (the...

Metellus Scipio and a number of influential senators from the Optimate faction were fleeing the disastrous Battle of Thapsus when their fleet was intercepted...

grants; however, the legion was recalled for the Battle of Thapsus (46 BC) and the final Battle of Munda (45 BC). After Munda, Caesar disbanded the legion...

46 BC at the Battle of Thapsus. Cato and Metellus Scipio killed themselves shortly thereafter. The following year, Caesar defeated the last of the Pompeians...

ISBN 0-200-71100-8. Heiland, W.E. (1909). "Chap LVIII: From the Battle of Thapsus to the Death of Caesar: 46–44 B.C.". The Roman Republic. Vol. 3. Cambridge:...

Julius Caesar. He was killed soon after the battle of Thapsus in 46 BC. Faustus was the only surviving son of the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla...

Metellus Scipio and Cato, who subsequently committed suicide, at the Battle of Thapsus in 46 BC. Together with Titus Labienus, former general in Caesar's...