Battle of Tricaméron

the battle of Tricamarum or Tricaméron occurred the December 15th 533 between the armies vandals led by their king Gélimer and his brother Tzazon and the Byzantine Armée, ordered by the Bélisaire general. This battle put an end to the reconquest of North Africa under the reign of the emperor Justinien and assure to the destruction of the military power vandal started with the Bataille of the AD Decimum.

Context

After being pushed back out of Carthage, Gélimer installed its army with Bulla Regia in Numidie, to a hundred kilometers in the west of Carthage (not of the current border Tunisia-Algeria). Not having the military capacity to overcome only the army of Bélisaire, Gélimer asked for the return of his/her Tzazon brother then in shift in Sardinia.

In waiting of the return of his/her brother, Gélimer tried to divide the allied forces mercenaries in Bélisaire. It offered rewards to punic and Berber local tribes for each head of Roman soldier that they could report, and sent of the agents to Carthage to negotiate the rallying of the mercenaries Hun S who were so important in the victory of Bélisaire to the AD Decimum. When Tzazon joined the army of his/her brother at the beginning of December, Gélimer launched an offensive in direction of Carthage.

Bienqu' having strengthened the city lasting the twelve weeks which were passed since the battle of the AD Decimum, Bélisaire decided to anticipate a seat and launched its army to the meeting of the Vandals which had established their camp not far from the main thing Aqueduc of the area, in order to deprive the food of water Carthage.

Battle

Both army met in Tricaméron, to about thirty kilometers of Carthage and the Roman cavalry immediately charged the lines vandals before being reformed and with réattaquer on two occasions. During the third load, Tzazon was killed under the eyes of Gélimer, which, affected in the same way that it had been it with the AD Decimum, gave the order of retirement towards Numidie, making it possible Bélisaire to go towards the town of Hippo Regius which opened its doors to him.

Consequences

After the loss of some 3000 soldiers, died or captive, Gélimer realized that its kingdom was lost and tried to flee towards Spain, to join the Vandals who had not followed the large one of the troops to North Africa of the years before. However the Romans, carried out by Pharas d' Hérulie intercepted it and forced it to give up its average logistics and to join the local Berber tribes. Initially, he refused to go, even in the exchange of a government. But after one particularly hard winter, it went to Bélisaire, yielding the provinces of Corsica, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands with the capacity of Justinien, thus putting a final point at the kingdom vandal.

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