Zela, Ruspina, & Thapsus (47 to 46 B.C.E.)

Sources:
Pierre Bouillon, "The Death of Cato the Younger (of Utica)"

Music:
"Heliograph," by Chris Zabriskie
"Drums of the Deep," by Kevin MacLeod
"Thomas Neutrality," by Enrique Molano
"Flute and Drum, Rishikesh," by Samuel Corwin
"The House Glows (With Almost No Help,)" by Chris Zabriskie
"Hallon," by Christian Bjoerklund

[dyslexofficial]

Ceasars life is literally the definition of plot armor

[jennasyde]

10:07 imagine tripping over in public and it still being talked about 2000 years later.

[protonjones]

"I came, I lost, I died." -Cato 46 B.C.E.

[sgtrpcommand]

The amount of times Ceasar got himself into deep shit and miraculously escaped makes me think Fortuna does indeed favor the bold.

[irwinwinaris]

Man this Caesar guy has more Ex Machina moments than most fiction protagonists.

[matthewlebo]

I like how there was a Scipio AND a Cato defending Roman Carthage against an attack launched from Italy.

[MandaloreTheReclaimer]

The old flute as a distraction technique, classic

[mitndi]

Seriously, I don't know how this guy survived the last 6 years of his military career.

[timothymclean]

Pharmaces: "Alright, there's no way I'm going to be able to out-plan Caesar. He's too good at the slow, carefully-calculated kind of warfare. So how do I counter that? ...I know! I'll force battle immediately, before he has time to plan or prepare, by doing the last thing he'd expect!"
_Pharmaces soon learned why Caesar hadn't expected that_

[PeterJavi]

"Veni Vidi Vici" can roughly be translated to: "Get on my level, nerds."

[CreepsMcPasta]

I love following these stories of Caeser's life. I hope he has a long lasting career afterwards as payoff for all his hard work

[charlesschwaboverhere]

[Video title]; or How Caesar Narrowly Escapes Death This Time Vol. 139

[farmer]

That flute man should have got a triumph.

[franzjosephikaiservonaustr]

22:55 "Caesar suffered from seizures his entire life"
Name checks out.

[TheModernMartialArtist]

Took under 60 elephants to break an army of thousands. Elephants are no joke.

[evertenplaza]

Its kinda funny to see caesar overestimating his opponent so much that he thought of a big month long game plan only to have the enemy do a full frontal charge

[monkofdeaths]

24:35 A theory I heard about this slaughter is that Caesar's men were annoyed at Caesar because he had pardoned so many of his enemies who then betrayed him and resumed fighting him (and by extension Caesar's soldiers). So in order to prevent yet another such a pardoning followed by yet another campaign, the soldiers decided to simply execute all the prisoners and ignore Caesar's orders to be sure that this was the last time they'd have to deal with these people ever again.

[kogerugaming]

Ceasar: Goes into enemy territory with like zero food.
XIII legion: I guess we eat grass and caligae soup then.

[DBT]

"Africa, I have hold of you now!"
I'm gonna use this every time I trip and fall to the ground.

[turmunhkganba]

Who needs sleep when Historia Civilis uploads