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The Battle of Pharsalus    The battle of Pharsalus was the definitive battle of the Caesar´s Civil War (wich confronted Gaius Julius Caesar and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus). The battle seemed to be won by Pompeius, but Caesar show his tactical habilities in the battlefield. The Cavalry of Pomeius was more numerous than the Caesar´s one, so they charge against the cavalry of Caesar, but the general had placed some veteran cohorts behind the cavalry, so his cohorts and his cavalry could destroy the Pompeius cavalry.  After this, it was easy to encircle one of the Pompeius flanks, that was easily destroyed. After this, the rest of the Pompeius army fell back and returned to the camp just to submit to Caesar after a few days. The armies The Caesar army was compund by the veteran legionaries who fought in the Gallic Wars with Caesar About the numbers the Pompeius army was two times more numerous (35000 against 70000), but the infantry of Pompeius was formed by ...

The Battle of Cannae       The battle of Cannae was the greatest victory of the general Hannibal Barca from Carthage. The strategy of Hannibal consisted in a weak front line, and make it move back. About the cavalry, Hannibal knew that his horsemen were stronger than the roman equites, so he decided to destroy them fast to encircle all the roman legionaries with his heavy lybian infantry, which were in the rear of the carthaginian army, in the front and with his strong cavalry charging in the back of the roman army (This is called the Incus and the Hammer). This battle is one of the most important battles in ancient times. This battle letted Hannibal conquer the most part of Italy. This domain were stopped in the 202 b.C by Scipio in the Battle of Zama. The Armies     The roman army was compound by about 40000 heavy roman legionaries, a similar amount of ally infantry, and more than 6000 horsemen. This strong army was guiend by the consuls Varr...