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  List of Roman battles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 - Julian expels the Alamanni from the Rhineland
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After 418 308• they disappear from 'Mount Algidus, and in the same 386 year the communications of Rome and Latium with the Hernici in the Trerus valley were secured by the capture and colonization of Labicum.
Its two pitched battles' the strength of the insurrection was broken, and two more campaigns sufficed for the complete reduction of such of the insurgent communities as still held out.
The battle that followed was desperate, and the Romans lost one of their consuls, Decius, and more than 8000 men.' But the Roman victory was decisive.
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Romans engaged in a battle with the Latins.
In the battle, Scipio defeated the Carthaginian forces and so severely defeated the forces of the Carthaginian ally King Syphax of Numidia that Scipio was able to expel Syphax's forces from the capital of Cirta with a force of 3 cohorts (about 1650 men).
Pompeius Magnus is defeated in a battle with Q. Sertorius near the River Sucro and later enters an indecisive battle near the town of Saguntum.
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 Magnesia Battle - Super Magnesium Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Battle of Magnesia was fought in 190 BC near Magnesia ad Sipylum, between the Romans and their ally Eumenes of Pergamum against the army of Antiochus...
This battle was refought in 1998 by members of the Christchurch Wargaming Society at the Woolston Club using DBM rules.
Battle of Magnesia · Battle of Mons Algidus · Battle of Mount Gaurus...
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 History of the Roman Empire - FileFront Gaming Forums
The arrival at this moment of a small Roman squadron in forbidden waters was probably excusable as a war measure in defence of Greek allies, but it was a formal breach of the treaty of 302 BC with Tarentum.
After two campaigns in which, though he always won battles, Pyrrhus was losing more men than he could afford he moved on to Sicily (278 BC) and the Romans had little difficulty in dealing with his friends and rear guards on the Italian mainland.
Three days after the battle he ordered all of the eight thousand prisoners taken on the battle field to be massacred in cold blood.
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After the Battle of Zela, Caesar sent the famous message "Veni, Vidi, Vici." Change this quote to the future tense.
The consuls Hirtius and Pansa die in battle against Antony in the Po Valley.
Before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, Constantine is said to have seen a vision in which he heard certain words.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1090 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The consequence of this was that he was deserted by all his followers, and fearing to be betrayed into the hands of the enemy, he took the daring resolution of repairing at once to Syra­ cuse as a suppliant, and placing himself at their mercy.
450, and as in that year a war broke out with the Aequians and Sabines, K. Duilius and four of his colleagues were sent to Mount Algidus against the Aequians.
After the abolition of the decemvirate, and when some of the decemvirs had been punish­ed, Duilius escaped from sharing their fate by going into voluntary exile, whereupon his property, like that of the others who withdrew from Rome, was publicly sold by the quaestors.
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 Arianna Online Forums - For Whitey - About the Roman Empire - The Republic!!!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As he made towards the Alps, Cassius, who was praetor of that part of Gaul that lies about the Po, met him with ten thousand men, but being overcome in battle, he had much ado to escape himself, with the loss of a great many of his men.
For news was already brought that Pompey [Davis: Crassus' rival for military glory] was at hand; and people began to talk openly that the honor of this war was reserved for him, who would come and at once oblige the enemy to fight and put an end to the war.
Crassus, therefore, eager to fight a decisive battle, encamped very near the enemy, and began to make lines of circumvallation; but the slaves made a sally, and attacked the pioneers.
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Battle of Carrhae: Roman army defeated by the Parthians, Crassus killed, the Roman army standards taken as booty
In battle at Munda in Spain the last Roman Republican resistance is crushed
Battle of Philippi: the Triumvirate defeat Brutus and Cassius, both of whom take their own lives
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 The Founding of Rome
They had to be strong and fit, for in addition to his weapons each soldier had to carry provisions for two weeks and tools for pitching camp.
When the soldiers went into line of battle to fight, the formation was called acies;when they were marching in column it was called agmen.
If during a battle the legion were hard pressed the soldiers formed an orbis, which was very like the square that the British army formed in the 18th and 19th centuries if it was in difficulties.
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 Sudis (stake) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The advantage of such suggested modes of use is that they are consistent with the symmetry of the stakes and account for the hand grip at the centre which is required to bind the stakes together.
In the Battle of Mons Algidus (458 BC), Cincinnatus ordered his men to provide twelve valli each, and used them to build a fortification around the Aequi, who were, at the same time surrounding another Roman army.
This page was last modified 16:38, 24 February 2006.
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 Algiers - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Algiers
The new town, constructed under French rule after 1830, is in European style.
The Battle of Algiers, between the Algerian nationalist population and the French army and settlers, took place here during the Algerian War of Independence 1954–62.
The name is derived from Al-jazair, an Arabic word meaning islands.
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Latins Foedus Cassianum (493 BC) — treaty between Romans and Latins, mediated by Spurius Cassius Romans gain control of Latium 474 BC — Hieron I of Syracuse def.
Etruscans near Cumae in naval battle War against Aequi: 458 B.C.- Cincinnatus comes from his farm when elected dictator and saves the Romans in the Battle of Mt. Algidus, then returns to the plow immediately M.
Philip V Battle of Magnesia Flamininus declares withdrawal of Roman troops from Greece at Isthmian Games (196 BC) 3rd Macedonian War: Battle of Pydna — L. Aemilius Paulus def.
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 Roman History
Finally Cloelia a maiden that was a hostage of Porsena's swam the Tiber to escape.
496 Battle of Lake Regillus against the Latins, appearance of Castor and Pollux the Gemini brothers 494 Withdrawal of plebians to Sacer Mons to protest unfair treatment by the patricians.
Menenius Agrippa told the belly and the limbs story.
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 Events at Rome 509-240 BCE
494 First secession of Plebs (Aventine or Mons Sacer)
460 Cincinnatus saves Roman army on Mt. Algidus
295 Battle of Sentinum (self-sacrifice of P. Decius Mus)
www.uvm.edu /~bsaylor/rome/events.html   (169 words)

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