It is a rare occurance in history that two truly great military minds face off on the battlefield. Grant and Lee, Patton and Rommel, Napoleon and Wellington. In the days of far Antiquity, there is only one time I can think of off the top of my head that two of the all time greats fought, and that would be Scipio and Hannibal at Zama. No, the truly great Trinity of ancient military minds is, of course, Hannibal, Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, and none of them ever fought each other.
But what if two of them had? What, through some twist of time and space, we pluck Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, and their respective armies, from their respective time periods and place them on one battlefield: A flat plain with a small creek and some hills in the middle. And, for whatever reason, they decided they would fight each other. Who would emerge victorious from such a situation?
Which armies will they be commanding? We shall take Caesar's legions from the Battle of Alesia. Roughly 60,000 Romans, around 12 legions, with cavalry and auxilaries. I can't find an exact order of battle, unfortunately. For Alexander? His army from Gaugamela, around 47,000 men (31,000 phalangites, 9,000 peltasts and 7,000 cavalry).
Now, of these two masters of war, who would defeat the other?
But what if two of them had? What, through some twist of time and space, we pluck Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, and their respective armies, from their respective time periods and place them on one battlefield: A flat plain with a small creek and some hills in the middle. And, for whatever reason, they decided they would fight each other. Who would emerge victorious from such a situation?
Which armies will they be commanding? We shall take Caesar's legions from the Battle of Alesia. Roughly 60,000 Romans, around 12 legions, with cavalry and auxilaries. I can't find an exact order of battle, unfortunately. For Alexander? His army from Gaugamela, around 47,000 men (31,000 phalangites, 9,000 peltasts and 7,000 cavalry).
Now, of these two masters of war, who would defeat the other?
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