The Battle of Philippi was the final battle in the Liberators' civil war between the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian (of the Second Triumvirate) and...
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The Battle of Philippi formed part of the Western Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War and was fought in and around Philippi, Virginia (now West...
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Philippi (/fɪˈlɪpaɪ, ˈfɪləˌpaɪ/; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Φίλιπποι, Phílippoi) was a major Greek city northwest of the nearby island, Thasos. Its original name...
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Liberators' civil war (category Assassination of Julius Caesar)
the Battle of Philippi in October 42 BC, and committed suicide. Brutus committed suicide after the second part of the battle. After the murder of Caesar...
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Mark Antony (redirect from Mark Antony (Character of Rome))
defeated Caesar's killers, the Liberatores, at the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC, and divided the government of the Republic among themselves. Antony was assigned...
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Augustus (redirect from Augustus, Emperor of Rome)
to defeat the assassins of Caesar. Following their victory at the Battle of Philippi (42 BC), the Triumvirate divided the Roman Republic among themselves...
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site of the Battle of Philippi, known as the "Philippi Races". Although a minor skirmish, this is considered the earliest notable land action of the American...
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Gaius Cassius Longinus (redirect from Cassius (assassin of Caesar))
conspiracy. He commanded troops with Brutus during the Battle of Philippi against the combined forces of Mark Antony and Octavian, Caesar's former supporters...
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Marcus Junius Brutus (category Children of Servilia (mother of Brutus))
Caesarians decisively defeated the outnumbered armies of Brutus and Cassius at the two battles at Philippi in October 42. After the defeat Brutus took his own...
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Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (category People of the War of Actium)
and Caesar's former general and right-hand man Mark Antony in the Battle of Philippi. In 40 BC, he was praetor urbanus and played a major role in the Perusine...
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Spain and Africa. October 3 – First Battle of Philippi: The Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins Marcus Brutus...
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in the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC. He died in 32 BC. It is possible that a son of Porcia and Bibulus was the man who wrote the biography of Brutus....
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Legio X Equestris (category War of Actium)
triumvirs until the final Battle of Philippi. The veterans obtained lands near Cremona, and an inscription reports that the name of the legion at the time...
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George A. Porterfield (category Members of the Aztec Club of 1847)
were captured. This rout led to the Battle of Philippi being called the "Philippi Races." Porterfield and those of his men who were not dispersed or captured...
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Lepidus (category People of the War of Mutina)
the assassins' faction in the Battle of Philippi, during which he remained in Rome, Antony and Octavian took over most of Lepidus' territories, but granted...
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South Africa, one of the larger and newest of the Cape's townships Battle of Philippi (42 BC), a Roman Civil War battle Battle of Philippi (West Virginia)...
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Second Triumvirate (redirect from Treaty of Brundisium)
a brutal civil war, the liberatores were defeated at the Battle of Philippi. After Philippi, Antony and Octavian took the east and west, respectively...
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was transferred to Tucker County, West Virginia. The Battle of Philippi, also known as the "Philippi Races", was fought in Barbour County on June 3, 1861...
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42 BCE just before the Battle of Philippi if the god would grant him and Marcus Antonius victory over two of the assassins of Julius Caesar, Gaius Cassius...
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Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32 BC) (category Senators of the Roman Republic)
day of the first battle of Philippi, as the latter attempted to sail out of Brundisium. He was saluted imperator in consequence, and a record of this...
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West Virginia in the American Civil War (redirect from Western Virginia military operations of the American Civil War)
Battle of Philippi in Barbour County. This essentially freed Unionists in the northwestern counties of Virginia to form a functioning government of their...
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soldier. He was a centurion in the army of Gaius Cassius Longinus at the Battle of Philippi. After the battle was over, he was sent by Cassius to find...
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9th Indiana Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union army from Indiana)
of the first land battles of the Civil War, the Battle of Philippi, took place in Philippi, Barbour County, in what is now West Virginia. The battle began...
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Roman Republic (redirect from Rise of Rome)
Second Triumvirate. The conspirators were defeated at the Battle of Philippi in 42. Following Philippi, Rome's territories were divided between the triumvirs...
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following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually yielding...
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Horace (category People of the War of Actium)
republic to an empire. An officer in the republican army defeated at the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC, he was befriended by Octavian's right-hand man in civil...
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Cato the Younger (redirect from Cato of Utica)
Marcus Junius Brutus Marcus Porcius Cato, later killed in the Second Battle of Philippi Second (and third) wife Marcia. Marcus Porcius Cato (cos. 195 BC)...
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Ambrose Bierce (redirect from Oil of Dog)
at the Battle of Philippi (the first organized land action of the war) and received newspaper attention for his daring rescue, under fire, of a gravely...
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Julius Caesar (play) (redirect from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar)
appears to Brutus with a warning of defeat. (He informs Brutus, "Thou shalt see me at Philippi.") At the Battle of Philippi, Cassius and Brutus, knowing that...
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Virgil (redirect from Swan of Mantua)
: 1602 After defeating the army led by the assassins of Julius Caesar in the Battle of Philippi (42 BC), Octavian tried to pay off his veterans with land...
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