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Topic: Battle of Issus (194)


  
  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.
Battle of Sellasia[?] Defeat of Cleomenes III[?] of Sparta by Antigonus Doson[?] of Macedon and the Achaean League[?]
Battle of Herdonia[?] Hannibal destroys the Roman army of the praetor Gnaeus Fulvius.
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  List of Roman battles Details, Meaning List of Roman battles Article and Explanation Guide
Battle of Herdonia - Hannibal destroys the Roman army of the praetor Gnaeus Fulvius.
Battle of the Metaurus - Hasdrubal is defeated and killed by Nero's Roman army.
357 - Battle of Strasbourg (357) - Julian expels the Alamanni from the Rhineland
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 List of Roman battles - Wikinfo
Battle of Cape Ecnomus - A Carthaginian fleet under Hamilcar and Hanno is defeated in an attempt to stop a Roman invasion of Africa by Marcus Atilius Regulus.
Battle of Herdonia - Hannibal destroys the Roman army of the praetor Gnaeus Fulvius.
357 - Battle of Strasbourg (357) - Julian expels the Alamanni from the Rhineland
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 Roman Emperors - DIR Battle Descriptions
Battle of Issus, A.D. By late spring 194, the armies of Septimius Severus had fought their way through the Cilician Gates and were in Cilicia, preparing to enter Syria.
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, A.D. During Augustus's reign (27 B.C.-14 A.D..), probably the greatest disaster suffered by the Romans was the defeat in the Teutoburg forest when the former proconsul of Africa, Publius Quinctilius Varus, together with three legions (XVII, XVIII, and XIX), six cohorts and three squadrons of cavalry (alae) were practically slaughtered.
Battle of Yarmuk, A.D. During the reign of Heraclius this battle was fought between Romans and Arabs in the Jordan valley in the Roman province of Palestine.
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 The Decline
Macrinus was overthrown in a battle outside Antioch and the young high priest to an exotic Syrian god became Augustus of the Roman empire.
And yet the battle of Châlons is believed by many to have been little more than a token show of defiance, in which Tetricus quite gladly saw his troops defeated in order to be able to relinquish his position.
It is said that before the battle of the Milvian Bridge in AD 312, at which he enticed Maxentius to abandon his safe position behind the Aurelian Wall and then drove most of his army into the Tiber, Constantine had dreamed of the sign of Christ.
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 Travel Guide To Turkey, Guide de la Turquie, GUIDE MARTINE, Guide to Turkey, Guide de Turquie, Travel, Turkey, Voyage, ...
During the Battle of Issus he defeated Darius III and the great king's camp with his harem fell into his hands.
Darius III escaped once again but his army was shattered at the Battle of Gaugamela, the last big battle of the war which took place between Nineveh and Arbela on the 1st October 331 BC.
Antiochos III was defeated at the Battle of Magnesia (189 BC) and lost his lands beyond the Taurus range, to Rome.
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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.
The battle was Caesar's last and hardest fought engagement.
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 Roman Timeline of the Second Century AD
117 AD Battle of Hatra, Trajan fails in the siege attempt and retires from the eastern campaign.
194 AD Battles between the forces of Pescennius Niger and Septimus Severus near the city of Cyzicus and Nicea.
Death of the Emperor Pescennius Niger, who was captured and killed by troops of Septimus Severus.
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 Roman Emperors - DIR Alphabetic Emperor Index
If there was a series of battles in a specific location, click on that year in which you are interested.
Battle of Abrittus, A.D. Battle of Adrianople, A.D. Battle of Actium, B.C. Battle of Ad Decimum, A.D. Battle of Akroinon, A.D. Siege of Alexandria, A.D. Siege of Amida, A.D. Battle of Anchialos, A.D. Battle of Angora, AD 1402
Sieges of Ctesiphon, A.D. Battle of Dara, A.D. Battle of Edessa, A.D. Battle of Frigidus River, A.D. Battle of Issus, A.D. Siege of Jerusalem, A.D. Battle of Kossovo, AD 1389,1448.
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 A Harmony of the Life of Jesus - Time Charts
Greece: Antigonus I killed in battle of Issus against Seleucus I and his allies.
Judah: Jews, under the leadership of Judas Maccabeus, rebel against the persecution of Antiochus IV (to 164, when Jewish worship is restored).
42 Rome: Triumvirate defeats Brutus and Cassius at the battle of Philippi.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pescennius Niger
Here in 194 a battle took place in which Æmilianus was slain.
Niger himself now hastened to the scene but was defeated near Nicæa, with the result that most of the cities of the Province of Asia came into the hands of Severus.
The possession of this city was decided by a battle fought south of Issus in which Pescennius Niger was defeated.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11739a.htm   (374 words)

  
 Detail Page
Albinus accepted this position, allowing Severus to launch his war with Niger.
Crushing the Eastern claimant at the battle of Issus in 194, Severus turned on Albinus in 196, and at Lugdunum (Lyon) the governor of Britain was destroyed.
Severus was now sole master of the Roman world, but the civil war had caused great ruin, both in terms of fighting and in the political executions necessary to bring the Senate and bureaucracy under heel.
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 Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor of Phoenician Descent
The fighting moved to the Asian shore of the Propontis, and in late December 193 or early January 194, Niger was defeated in a battle near Nicaea and fled south.
By late spring, Niger was defeated near Issus and the remainder of his support collapsed.
Byzantium, however, refused to surrender to Severan forces.
phoenicia.org /septiumiusseverus.html   (2671 words)

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