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  List of battles 1400 BC-600 AD
Battle of Himera[?] The Carthaginians under Hamilcar are defeated by the Greeks of Sicily, led by Gelon[?] of Syracuse.
316 BC Battle of Lautulae[?] The Romans are defeated by the Samnites.
225 BC Battle of Faesulae[?] The Romans are defeated by the Gauls of Northern Italy.
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464 BC - The consuls are A. Postumius Albus Regillensis and Sp.
284 BC - The Gallic raiders are forcibly ejected from the ager Gallicus by the Romans.
170 BC - The consuls are A. Atilius Serranus and A. Hostilius Mancinus.
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 Battle of the Trebia information - Search.com
The Battle of the Trebia (or Trebbia) was the first major battle of the Second Punic War, fought between the Carthaginian forces of Hannibal and the Roman Republic in 218 BC.
Hannibal began the Second Punic War in 219 BC by attacking the Roman-allied city of Saguntum, in modern Spain.
The December of 218 B.C. was particularly cold and snowy.
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 List of battles 1400 BC-AD 600
316 BC Battle of Lautulae The Romans are defeated by the Samnites.
225 BC Battle of Faesulae The Romans are defeated by the Gauls of Northern Italy.
Battle of Sellasia Defeat of Cleomenes III of Sparta by Antigonus Doson of Macedon and the Achaean League
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 Battle of Zama information - Search.com
The Battle of Zama, generally accepted to have been fought on or around October 19 of 202 BC, was the final and decisive battle of the Second Punic War.
Zama marked a reversal from typical battles of the Second Punic War in that the Romans had less infantry, while the Carthaginians — by the defection of the Numidians — were outnumbered 6,000 to 3,000 in cavalry.
The Battle of Zama (202 BC) order-of-battle diagram.
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 US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Battle of Asculum (279 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.
This battle was the second encounter between an Alexandrian, phalanx-based army and the Roman legion.
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 The Early Republic
In the treaty of 348 BC Carthage undertook to respect all Latin territory and coast towns as a Roman sphere of influence.
The decisive battle was fought at Beneventum in 275 BC.
In 272 BC, the year of Pyrrhus'' death, the powerful Greek city of Tarentum in the south of Italy was surrendered to the Romans, other Greek cities and the Bruttian tribes with their valuable forest-country surrendered likewise, undertaking to supply Rome with ships and crews in future.
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 Chronology of Greek History After the Peloponnesian War
(Wmter) Dionysius I was defeated by Carthage at the battle of Cronium.
331/330 -- Alexander I of Epirus was defeated at the battle of Pandosia.
Ptolemy V was defeated at the battle of Panion.
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 Battles
The Battle of Cumae 474 BC The Battle of the Eurymedon c.
The Battle of Mantinea 362 BC The Battle of Tamynae 349 BC Munn, Mark H., The Defense of Attica: The Dema Wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 B.C. Berekeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Siege of Tyre, 332 BC Battle of Megalopolis 331 BC, revolt of Sparta
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/History/Battles/Battles.html   (1192 words)

  
 Ethics of Roman Expansion to 133 BC by Sanderson Beck
In 312 BC censor Appius Claudius got the landless population distributed throughout the tribes, the sons of freedman admitted into the senate, the first aqueduct built to bring water nine miles from Gabii to the Circus Maximus, and the Appian Way paved for the 115 miles from Rome to Capua.
In 287 BC the problem of debt led to the appointment of Hortensius as dictator, and from then on plebiscites passed by the plebeian council had the force of law on everyone and did not have to be approved by the assembly, the classes of centuries, or the senate.
In 225 BC Celtic Gauls crossed the alps with an army of 150,000 infantry and 20,000 horse and chariots.
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 Legion XXIV - Time Line of Republican Rome
401 BC Battle of Cunaxa, First Persian Civil War, near Babylon, in which Cyrus of Persia was killed in an attempt (with a Spartan and Greek contingent) to seize the Persian throne from his brother Artaxerxes II.
207 BC Battle of Metaurus (south of Fano on Adriatic coast of Italy), 2nd Punic War (219-202) where Marcus Livius and Claudius Nero and Roman force of 50,000 defeated a Carthginian army (50,000 with war elephants) under Hasdrubal (brother of Hannibal) and was the turning point in expelling the Carthginians from Italy.
58 BC Julius Caesar appointed Proconsul-Governor of Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul and Illyricum.
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 DBA Battle Scenarios
The Crossing of the Rhone (218 BC) -- Hannibal's Carthaginians vs. Gallic.
Don't forget to name the battle and identify the year in which it was fought (even if fictional or speculative).
Here is a Battle Template that you can download for use; just make sure to open and edit the file in a Courier or other non-proportional type font.
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 Ancient Greek Battles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
362 BC Battle of Mantinea (2 of 3)
209 BC Battle of Lamia - 1st Battle
209 BC Battle of Lamia - 2nd Battle
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 Hannibal Ad Portas
In 209 BC Fabius was laying siege to the city of Tarentum, and Marcellus was to keep Hannibal occupied and away from Fabius.
The Romans forced a battle in the valley between Asculum and Herdonea.
The Orders of Battle may be downloaded in Excel97 format.
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