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War of Actium

Belligerents Western Roman provinces Eastern Roman provincesPtolemaic EgyptCommanders and leadersOctavianMarcus AgrippaTitus Statilius TaurusLucius PinariusMark Antony‡‡Cleopatra‡‡Gaius Sosius(POW)Publius Canidius CrassusBogud†Strength200,000 Roman legionaries450 Roman warships and transports173,700 Roman legionaries18,000 Ptolemaic soldiers5,000 Median reinforcements154 Roman and Ptolemaic warships and transportsCasualties and losses 50,000 75,000The War of Actium or Actian War (32–30 BC) was the last civil war of the Roman Republic, fought between Mark Antony (assisted by Cleopatra and by extension Ptolemaic Egypt) and Octavian.

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