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	Asculum - Encyclopedia.com
		Asculum, ancient town, Apulia, SE Italy, 18 mi (29 km) S of Foggia, on a branch of the Appian Way.
		He defeated the Romans at Asculum in 279BC, but his casualties were so great he said: Another such victory and we are lost.
		Yes,I believe it But Tony Blair was guilty of grave miscalculations, says Andrew Gilligan, the controversial former BBC journalist whose WMD report triggered the calamitous Kelly affair.
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	Ascoli - LoveToKnow 1911
		Asculum), a town and episcopal see of the Marches, Italy, the capital of the province of Ascoli Piceno, 17 m.
		The ancient Asculum was the capital of Picenum, and it 1 The epithet distinguishes it from Ascoli Satriano (anc.
		This page was last modified 10:15, 6 Oct 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ascoli (637 words)

	Ancient coins of Picenum
		No coins can be attributed to this region during the period of the dominion of the Umbrians, Etruscans, or Gauls.
		It is doubtful whether the series of aes grave, with the letter A for type, belongs to Asculum in Picenum, or to Ausculum in Apulia.
		Firmum (Fermo) was colonized by the Romans at the beginning of the First Punic War, B.C. 264, and this appears to be about the time to which its coins (aes grave) belong (for references see Friedländer, Reper- torium, p.
	www.snible.org /coins/hn/picenum.html (229 words)

	Battles: Battle of Asculum :: 0 A.D. :: Wildfire Games
		The battle of Asculum was the second battle fought between Pyrrhos (Pyrrhus) of Epirus and the Romans, this time under the command of Consuls P.
		By the time of the battle of Asculum the power of the Roman Republic was just beginning to expand out of the confines of Latinum in Central Italy.
		These wagons were covered with tridents, spikes, scythes, and grapples that could be set on fire and swung at an elephant's face or trunk; they were manned by archers and slingers.
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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 476 (v. 3)
		But when Stilpicius came to his assistance, Afranius' was attacked at once by the two Roman armies, and lost his life in the battle: his troops fled in confusion to Asculum.
		He at length took Asculum, and subdued the Picen-tines, and returned to Rome at the end of the year, which he entered in triumph on the 27th of December.
		Not trusting either to the justice of his cause, or to the eloquence of his advocates, L. Marcius Philippus and Q. Hortensius, he agreed to marry the daughter of the praetor Antis-tins, who presided at the trial, and was in consequence acquitted.
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	StrategyPage.com - Combat Information Center analysis, facts and figures about military conflicts and leaders
		Posing as the champion of the Italiote Greeks, he brought to Italy an army of 30,000 men organized and trained in the Macedonian fashion, along with a sizable contingent of elephants with which to terrorize the Romans, whom he considered a barbarian tribe.
		The casualties at Asculum were enormous, perhaps 10,000-12,000 on each side.
		After Asculum, Pyrrhus abandoned his efforts in Italy for a time, and attempted to aid his Sicilian Greek allies against the Carthaginians, who were allied with Rome.
	www.strategypage.com /cic/docs/cic48c.asp (445 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1124 (v. 2)
		279, and fought with his colleague P. Sulpicius against Pyrrhus at the battle of Asculum.
		Before the battle alarm had been spread in the camp of Pyrrhus, by the report that the consul Decius intended, like his father and grandfather, to devote himself to death and the army of the enemy to destruction.
		As to the result of the battle of Asculum, it is differently stated by different writers.
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	The Eagle Has Landed (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Maharbal succeeds - barely - with a roll of 3, and the town fathers of Asculum somewhat reluctantly open their gates.
		It's tough to decide how to distribute attrition losses: the Carthaginians need infantry to take the cities that will win them the game, but cavalry is what will prove decisive in the field.
		I guess whatever is sickening Hannibal's men originated in the town, or spread there from the siege camp.
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	Marche itinerary: Ascoli Piceno: Asculum Romana, the roman age
		Marche itinerary: Ascoli Piceno: Asculum Romana, the roman age
		Ascoli Piceno (Asculum) entered in contact with Rome mainly for reason of the trade that took place along that which would successively become the Consular Salarian Road as far back as the Alliance Treaty between Rome and the Piceno people that had been stipulated in the year 299 BC.
		This exceptionally important road, which linked the Tyrrhenian coast to that of the Adriatic, was of fundamental strategic and military importance for the Romans.
	www.aaanetserv.com /turismo/marche/ascoli_storia_2.html (446 words)

	Asculum Romana (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ascoli Piceno (Asculum) entered in contact with Rome mainly for reason of the trade that took place along that which would successively become the Consular Salarian Road as far back as the Alliance Treaty between Rome and the Piceno people that had been stipulated in the year 299 BC.
		This exceptionally important road, which linked the Tyrrhenian coast to that of the Adriatic, was of fundamental strategic and military importance for the Romans.
		One may admire still today several bridges constructed by the Romans, with their proverbial ability, that span the Tronto River and its branches.
	www.comune.ascoli-piceno.it /sito_inglese/citta/ausculum.htm (428 words)

	Battle of Asculum (279 BC) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the Second Punic War battle fought in 209 BC, see Battle of Asculum (209 BC).
		The Battle of Asculum took place in 279 BC between the Romans under the command of Consul Publius Decius Mus and the combined Tarantine, Oscan, Samnites, and Epiriotic forces, under the command of king Pyrrhus of Epirus.
		This battle is set within the Romano-Tarantine conflict, to control the Magna Graecia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Asculum (613 words)

	Pyrrhic victory Information
		A Pyrrhic victory (pronounced pirric) is a victory which comes at heavy cost to the victor.
		The phrase is a reference to King Pyrrhus of Epirus, who during the Pyrrhic War defeated the Romans at Heraclea and Asculum in 279 BC, but suffered severe and irreplaceable casualties in the process.
		After the battle of Asculum, Plutarch relates a report by Dionysius that:
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Pyrrhic_victory (270 words)

	Pyrrhus of Epirus - History Forum
		Some authors say that it was after Heraclea and some say that it was after Asculum.
		All I am saying is that the consuls P. Dentius Mus and P. Sulpicius Saverrio were the consuls at the Battle of Asculum and that is from a hefty amount of sources besides those three.
		While not saying that Pyrhus faced off against Fabricus and Aemilius we understand that since they are the consuls of Rome at the time, Pyrrhus must have fought against them.
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	Outlines of Roman History, Chapter 12
		Failing in his mission, Cineas returned to his master with the report that the Roman senate was “an assembly of kings.” To give force to the claims of Cineas, Pyrrhus had pushed his army into Campania, and even into Latium; but finding the cities loyal to Rome, he withdrew again to Tarentum.
		Battle of Asculum (B.C..—In southern Italy, Pyrrhus received the support of the Greek cities, of the Bruttians, the Lucanians, and even the Samnites.
		The battle of Asculum was a repetition of Heraclea.
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	Pompey by Plutarch
		But he himself was accused of having in his possession some hunting tackle, and books, that were taken at Asculum.
		To this he confessed thus far, that he received them from his father when he took Asculum, but pleaded further, that he had lost them since, upon Cinna's return to Rome, when his house was broken open and plundered by Cinna's guards.
		Pompey accepted the proposal, and they were privately contracted; however, the secret was not so closely kept as to escape the multitude, but it was discernible enough, from the favour shown him by Antistius in his cause.
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	asculum - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: )
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		Asculum : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Asculum : Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=asculum (88 words)

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		No coins can be attributed to this region during the period of the dominion of the Umbrians, Etruscans, or Gauls.
		The Romans conquered the country about B.C. 290, between which date and B.C. 268 the issue of coins at Ancona, Asculum (?), Firmum, and Hatria took place.
		Firmum (Fermo) was colonized by the Romans at the beginning of the First Punic War, B.C. 264, and this appears to be about the time to which its coins (aes grave) belong (for references see Friedländer, Reper- torium, p.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /numiswiki/print.asp?key=picenum (229 words)

	Battle of Asculum (279 BC)
		His elephants won him the day there by panicking the Roman horse and he marched almost to the gates of the Eternal City before withdrawing to his base at Tarentum.
		Undaunted by their defeat, the Romans raised new armies and advanced on Apulia, forcing Pyrrhus to march out again to attempt to defeat this "Lernean Hydra that grows two heads for each one cut off." At Asculum the two armies faced each other.
		Estimates of their numbers vary but they were probably about equal at around 40,000 men each.
	fanaticus.org /DBA/battles/asculum.html (760 words)

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