CASUALTY RECORD // -106 BCE
Battle of Burdigala
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
1 sides catalogued · combined 10,000 estimated
Roman Republic
10,000
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Burdigala was a Roman defeat during the Cimbrian War, resulting in the deaths of both Roman commanders Lucius Cassius Longinus and Lucius Calpurnius Caesoninus. With a recorded force of 40,000 Romans engaged and 10,000 casualties sustained, the battle represents one of the more costly engagements of the broader conflict against the migrating Celtic-Germanic confederacy. The opposing force included the Helvetian Tigurini under Divico, marking the involvement of that tribe as a significant combatant alongside the Cimbric coalition. The loss of two commanders in a single engagement reflects the severity of the defeat and would have disrupted Roman operational capacity in the theater. The battle belongs to a sequence of Roman reverses during the Cimbrian War before Rome reorganized its forces under later commanders.
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