August 9th 48bc

[longbow]

Gius Julius Caesar defeats Gnaeus Pompeus Magnus at the battle of Pharsalus (northern Greece)

Deployment

On Caesars left is the river Enipeus,he has three battle lines with a fourth held in reserve,he places his cavalry on his right.Marcus antonius is the commander of the troops on the left,Domitius Calvinus has the centre and Publius Sulla takes command of the right.

Pompey lines most of his cavalry (he has a lot more than Caesar) on his left,with light forces of Funditores and Archers.He matches Caesars battle lines in the centre, with Ahenobarbus commanding his right and Titus Labeinus took the left wing (Titus had been one of Caesars commanders in Gaul).

The Battle

When the generals had finished deploying their troops, the infantry began to close. Pompey's soldiers didnt charge in an effort to tire out Caesar's troops, this tactic backfired as Pompey's forces were unable to receive orders easily and Caesar's troops stopped halfway, leaving Pompey's troops confused. Caesar's veteran centurions, forseeing Pompey's trap, stopped halfway on their charge and allowed their lines to rest. Pompey's fresh legionaries and Caesar's veteran troops created a stalemate in the center. By the river, the light infantry skirmished before the heavy infantry closed. Titus Labienus led a cavalry charge and succeeded in pushing back Caesar's cavalry and light infantry. However, when confronted by Caesar's fourth line of heavy infantry, Labienus' charge was pushed back and the light infantry and cavalry of Pompey's right were pushed into the foothills of Mount Dogandzis. Caesar's fourth battle line wheeled into Pompey's rear at the same moment when Caesar pushed a fresh line of troops into battle. Now facing Caesar's fresh third line at the center of the battle and the attack from behind from Caesar's fourth line, Pompey saw that his defeat was at hand. He fled the battle, while his troops were defeated under pressure. Caesar ransacked Pompey's camp and took control of the remainder of Pompey's army.

And we all know what happened next......

[Lost_Warrior]

AVE CAESAR!!

[P.Clodius]

Hail Caesar, tactician without equal...!

[Favonius Cornelius]

I propose that a new thread be made for keeping record of events like this. I like the idea of bringing them up, but I would not want to clutter the general discussions of specific topics with a bunch of datelines. Primus whatcha think?

[Primus Pilus]

Hopefully, Moonlapse can figure out a way to make altering the calendar available to the public. We could add anniversary updates without creating multiple threads on the forum.

[Primus Pilus]

Ahhhh, figured it out on my own. All members should now have access to posting calendar events. I took the liberty of adding this original post by Longbow for August 9 to make sure it works...

 

Feel free to experiment (of course please be reasonable and within the confines of Roman History)

 

Notice that I've changed the settings so calendar events show up at the bottom of the forum near the member info. The regular calendar link is to the top and right of the main forum along with 'search' etc.

 

[EDIT]

I've found that entries are one time entries only and do not reoccur each year. Moon can you look into this and see if something is possible, I'm pretty much lost the initial set up.

[Primus Pilus]

Sorry to hijack this thread, but after dsicussing offline with Moon, seems we will have to upgrade software to do this. Unfortunately its not something we wish to do for the time being

[P.Clodius]

That's great but off topic. Caesar, Imperator, vanquisher of millions, friend of the people. Played by his own rules whether the battle field be at Pharsalus or in the Senate

[longbow]

Its great that we can now use the Calendar I think Caeser's invasion of Britain is at the end of the month,I'll do a calendar post if no one beats me too it.