Battle of Thapsus

Battle of Thapsus
	Part of Caesar's Civil War
	; Initial troop deployment of the battle
Date	April 6, 46 BC (Julian calendar)
Location	Thapsus (Tunisia), modern Ras Dimas35°37′28″N 11°02′52″E / 35.6244°N 11.0478°E
Result	Caesarian victory
Belligerents
Populares	Optimates; Numidia
Commanders and leaders
Gaius Julius Caesar	Metellus Scipio; Marcus Petreius; Juba I of Numidia; Titus Labienus; Lucius Afranius; Publius Attius Varus (fleet commander); Vergilius (garrison commander of Thapsus)
Units involved
Legio V (the fifth legion); Legio VII (the seventh legion); Legio VIII (the eighth legion); Legio IX (the ninth legion); Legio X (the tenth legion); Legio XIII (the thirteenth legion); Legio XIV (the fourteenth legion); Legio XXV (the twenty-fifth legion); Legio XXVI (the twenty-sixth legion); Legio XXVIII (the twenty-eighth legion); Legio XXIX (the twenty-ninth legion); Legio XXX (the thirtieth legion); Auxiliary Gallic cavalry; Auxiliary Germanic cavalry; Auxiliary Gaetulian cavalry;	Optimates' army; Juba's army
Strength
50,000−70,000 (at least 12 legions), 5,000 cavalry	70,000−90,000 (at least 12 legions), 14,500 cavalry ; Juba's allied troops with 60 elephants
Casualties and losses
Nearly 1,000	About 10,000

The Battle of Thapsus was a military engagement that took place on April 6, 46 BC^[2] near Thapsus (in modern Tunisia). The forces of the Optimates, led by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Scipio, were defeated by the forces of Julius Caesar.^[3] It was followed shortly by the suicides of Scipio and his ally, Cato the Younger, the Numidian king Juba, and his Roman peer Marcus Petreius.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k "Caesar's legions – Livius".
^ The date is that of the Roman calendar prior to the reforms of Julius Caesar. By the Julian calendar, it is February 7, 46 BC.
^ "Battle of Thapsus | Roman history". Encyclopaedia Britannica.