Thapsus 46 BC - Caesar's Most Complicated Campaign - Roman DOCUMENTARY

Sources:
Caesar's 'Civil War'
Plutarch's 'Life of Pompey' and 'Life of Caesar'
Appian's 'The Civil War'
Lucan's 'Pharsalia'
Cassius Dio's 'Roman History'
Theodore Mommsen's 'History of Rome'

#Documentary #Caesar #CivilWar

[Mrhomeless]

Elephants everytime they are routed: "I am gonna charge against my own army"

[bygghsas]

If caesar was a fictional character from a book or film, people would criticize him for having too much plot armor and coming out of impossible situations all the time
Edit: Oh and I forgot, he would be called a gary stu too, after all he's a military, diplomatic, administrative, political and oratory genius all at once
Also, shout out to Sittius who on his own initiative repelled gnaeus, managed to kill faustus, afranius, scipio, juba's general and indirectly killed king juba and petreius

[brainflash]

After what Scipio's men did to the 14th Legion, it is hardly surprising that Caesar's men showed them no mercy.

[BossVonD]

Inviting Caesar for dinner.
Caesar arrives: starts building a fort outside in the backyard first.

[DeusVoltage]

22:40 "Plutarch claims Caesar had an epileptic fit before the battle (Caesar icon on battle mini map starts vibrating)"

I died 🤣

[catriona_drummond]

Having a good meal and then killing one another in a duel is the definition of "going in style".

[taskforceknight]

Most People know Caesar as the Great General. But as for me i only remember him as that dude who liked to make fortified wooden castles in the middle of a warzone.

[earthenjadis]

Respect to the training elephants hit with dummy javelins.

[Monkey_SK]

You've got to hand it to Caesar, he just rarely seems to make a mistake. He takes every precaution he can to ensure safety and yet is never slow to spring into action when needed. The elephant training seems like such a good idea and makes you wonder what Scipio was up to in the same time. Programming Totalwar AI battle tactics I'd imagine 😉

[petsdinner]

Caesar: I shall perform the perfect manoeuvre, forcing my enemy to give battle at the perfect place at the perfect time
Sittius: I shall hit the Optimates until they stop moving

[jonbaxter]

Caesar, literally any time in his career:
"I'm gonna do what's called a pro-gamer move.

[Vsko]

I love how the elephants in the battle of Thapsus had better flanking abilities then most armies that we have seen on Kings and Generals documentaries hahaha

[tungeem-mbaeva]

Kings and Generals: Caeser backed into a corner
Me: So another victory I see

[MrBennie]

There's a reason this guy is remembered so long after his death. He was a beast!

[napoleonibonaparte]

_Julius the Builder, can we build it?_
_Julius the builder, _*_YES WE CAN!_*

Legionaries: F***....

[lshe]

Its come to the point where everytime the situation looks to be dire for Caesar, I sit there thinking "he's gonna start building something, isn't he?", only to be proven right shortly afterwards and naturally I feel a sudden urge to exclaim "HE IS BUILDING!" which so far has resulted in me waking up my 70yo neighbor once.

[sapphyrus]

After all these videos, I just realized that while Caesar is famed for the conquest of Gaul, his greatest conquest was probably the entire Roman Republic. He was apparently the only one to battle in every region of it to take over part by part.

[somedude]

Caesar takes 1-2 days to build small city sized camp for 50 thousand soldiers including roads ditches bridges walls and watch towers....while in eastern Europe it takes 10 years and costs twice as much to fix 2 kilometer road

[lyonvensa]

Not only Caesar is a briliant commander, lady luck seems to be on his side most of the time. Now that's an incredibly lethal combination.

[PiyushGupta-vxqi]

Cease what you do in your free time?

Ceaser: of course, fortify more...