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 | Three days after the battle he ordered all of the eight thousand prisoners taken on the battle field to be massacred in cold blood. |
| A few days later the 'Alexandrian War' was ended in a pitched battle on the Nile delta, in which both the king Ptolemy XII and the true power behind the throne, his chief-minister Achillas, met their death. |
| In the second battle however Brutus was defeated, his army refused another fight the next day, and so he was killed by the reluctant hand of a friend. |
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Battle of the Colline Gate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (197 words) |
| The battle of the Colline Gate, fought in November of 82 BC, was the final battle of the civil war between the Populares (originally led by Marius) and the Optimates led by Sulla. |
| In this battle Marcus Licinius Crassus won considerable note by containing the enemy in his sector and ultimately won Sulla the battle. |
| The battle was swiftly followed by the extermination of the Samnite prisoners within earshot of the senate house before Sulla addressed the senate (this was the last serious action ever fought by Samnite forces). |
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