How Caesar defeated Pompey

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[TetsuShima]

The saddest thing here is that this was the last time Caesar and Pompeii met before the latter fled to Egypt and was killed by Ptolemy. Keep in mind that both men spent a significant portion of their lives together, having first met as youngsters when Caesar was persecuted by Sulla and Pompeii was the dictator's second-in-command. They then formed such a strong bond during their joint reign that Caesar had Pompey marry Julia, who died giving birth. Cannot imagine how devastated Caesar felt once he discovered the horrible end that his eternal friend/rival got

[dylan]

Caesar is a great tactician. Always being outnumbered but still winning

[TetsuShima]

"What a terrible defeat our legions suffered. I'm glad I can at least ask the Egyptians for help. They are such lovely people...
*Pompeii the Great after the Battle of Pharsalia*

[AbleReason]

Pompey: Pom-pee (human being )
Pompeii: Pom-ehy ( doomed city )

[bololollek]

What is always underappreciated with Caesar is his pre-battle positioning. Almost all of his victories are thanks to his way of always placing his army in the perfect place at the perfect time.

[Imperius_Rex_]

Seriously though, Caesar's legions just spent 7 years in Gaul, literally the land with the best cavalry. Also Caesar probably knew how to hold formatiins better than any other general, considering the Gaelic strategy was fight wildly to break through the Roman formation. Pompeii basically handed Caesar the victory

[adamwilliams]

Caesar was playing 4D chess while everyone else were playing checkers.

[Kai]

Cesar said it himself "The enemy would have won if they were winners"

[dimitrioskontsiotis]

Caesar's army was far more experienced. Caesar had nothing but veterans from his Galic campaigns whereas most of Pompey's men were young and with very little to no experience. Pompey was at a pretty big disadvantage. He did have the bigger army but Caesar's men were far superior soldiers.

Pompey's only shot at winning the battle was with his cavalry. There's no way Pompey's infantry was going to beat Caesar's veterans and he knew this. He had a numerical advantage in the cavalry department so he intended to use them by routing Caesar's cavalry and attacking his infantry from the rear. It's pretty obvious what Pompey was going to do and Caesar knew what he was going to do.

When Pompey's cavalry ran into Caesar's men that were in reserve they ran into men that were heavily armored veteran spearmen. Pompey's cavalry was of poor quality. His cavalry was not heavy cavalry they were light cavalry. They were more numerous but many of Pompey's cavalrymen were young and with very little to no experience. Fighting heavily armored veteran spearmen was not something they were cut out for, and they were quickly routed.

Caesar won the Battle of Pharsalus due to superior tactics and a superior army. One last thing is before the Civil War Pompey hadn't fought in war since the Mithridatic Wars. He hadn't fought in war for 15 years. He was very rusty whereas Caesar had been consistently fighting in wars recently right up to the start of the Civil War.

[mazinshamshad]

Battle of Pharsalus marked the end of Roman Republic after Julius Caesar's Victory over Pompey and the senate. It is said when Caesar saw the bodies of the dead senators he remarked: "Well, they would it thus".

[jamierose]

Caesar won battles in Gaul out number 10 to 1. He also fought at the hardest part of the battle. He killed hundreds in hand to hand combat. He was a super warrior. Pompeii was a cake walk.

[shenzhendrake]

Pompey has quantity but Ceasar has quality. not bad at all

[scottshannon]

Caesars cavalry retreat was a feint and ran past the hidden infantry. those infantry used their javelin as spears allowing them to defeat pompey cavalry

[johnpaullaizure]

There are many reasons why Ceaser is the GOAT and has had several royal titles named after him.

[robertcooper]

I always said it's not the dog in the fight but the fight in the dog

[cariganpintalba]

A scene in Rome depicted the senators talking about how they should reward some of their supporters. Hey, we should make this guy an aedile, give this guy the governorship of Hispania and so on. They pressured Pompeii into going on the offensive to win militarily rather by attrition. Yes, the odds were in their favor but they forgot Caesar’s military career was built on beating the odds.

[gar]

Caesar took every third man from his cohorts and hid them on the flank to counter the cavalry.
He also had the legionaries retain the pilum (spears) to battle cavalry and told them to attack the faces of the young gentlemen who made up Pompeys numerically superior cavalry.
He knew they werent the battle hardened force that he had command of.
If Pompey had just sat and waited he knew he would win.
But the Roman aristo's insisted he do battle.

[TheInstinctWithinV]

I figured this was going to be about how he planned and caused the vulcano to erupt. That would be the most savage of ways to ensure victory.

[kevinmaina]

They rolled up Pompeys left flank like a carpet

[hammer]

Caesar defeated Pompey. After Pompey defeated Caesar.

#Dyrrachium