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	Battle of the Caudine Forks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Caudine Forks, 321 BC, was a decisive battle of the Samnite Wars.
		The Samnite commander, Gaius Pontius, hearing that the Roman army was located near Calatia, sent soldiers disguised as shepherds with orders to give the same story which was that the Samnites were besieging Lucera in Apulia.
		The area round the Caudine Forks was surrounded by mountains and could be entered only by two defiles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caudine_Forks (500 words)

	FORK - LoveToKnow Article on FORK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In agriculture and horticulture the fork is used for pitching lay, and other green crops, manure, andc.; commonly this has two prongs, tines ; for digging, breaking up surface soil, preparing for hand weeding and for planting the three-pronged fork is used.
		It was placed over the shoulders of the criminal, and his hands were fastened to it, condemned slaves were compelled to carry it about with them, and those sentenced to be flogged would be tied to it; crucifixions were sometimes carried out on a similar shaped instrument.
		The forks in any allusion to this defeat should refer to the topographical name and not to the jugum, which consisted of two upright spears with a third placed transversely as a cross-bar.
	45.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FO/FORK.htm (191 words)

	FORK (Lat. furca) - Online Information article about FORK (Lat. furca) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		hand weeding and for planting the three-pronged fork is used.
		gorge, where the vanquished were compelled to pass under the yoke (jugum), as a sign of submission, the expression " to pass through or under the forks " has been loosely used of such a disgraceful surrender.
		The " forks " in any allusion to this defeat should refer to the topographical name and not to the jugum, which consisted of two upright spears with a third placed transversely as a See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /FLA_FRA/FORK_Lat_furca_.html (539 words)

	Outlines of Roman History, Chapter 11
		Battle at the Caudine Forks (B.C..—In the early part of the war the Romans were nearly everywhere successful.
		In passing through a defile in the mountains near Caudium, called the “Caudine Forks,” the whole Roman force was entrapped by Pontius and obliged to surrender.
		The battle was finally decided in favor of the Romans; and the hope of a united Italy under the leadership of Samnium was destroyed.
	www.forumromanum.org /history/morey11.html (1599 words)

	Samnite Wars: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In the first part, the Romans attempted to encircle the Samnites, but were trapped at the Battle of the Caudine Forks (Battle of the Caudine Forks: more facts about this subject) and forced to surrender.
		The Samnites again formed an alliance with the Etruscans, and added the Gauls (Gauls: A Celt of ancient Gaul), but in the battle of Sentinum (battle of Sentinum: the battle of sentinum was the final battle of the third samnite war....
		Livy (Livy: Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17)) is our primary source for the entire conflict with Samnium.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/samnite_wars (535 words)

	History of Art:Italic Art
		A painting at Paestum from the tomb of a survivor of the battle of the Caudine Forks commemorates this Samnite victory over the Romans, at a time when the Lucanians, rulers of Paestum.
		Also related to Euphranor's painting of the Stoa of Zeus at Athens is the contrast between the marching Romans, earning spears and shields, and the deployment of their enemies, hidden by the terrain.
		Battle of the Caudine Forks, tomb painting trom Andriuoio.
	www.all-art.org /history80.html (3154 words)

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		Battle of Cannae, 216 BC A: _CARTHAGE_ 2.
		Battle of Caudine Forks, 321 BC A: the _SAMNITE_s 3.
		For 10: In 1794, in the Battle of Fallen Timbers, this Miami warrior's forces were defeated by General "Mad" Anthony Wayne.
	quizbowl.stanford.edu /archive/nhap96/nhap-mit-a.txt (3052 words)

	PITCHED BATTLE Meaning and Definition - Dictionary - eLook.org
		Battle of the Marne, Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry, Marne River
		Monmouth Court House, Battle of Monmouth Court House, Battle of Monmouth
		Shiloh, battle of Shiloh, battle of Pittsburgh Landing
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		One story is that in the year 362 B.C.--that is, some four centuries after the battle we have just related, the earth in the forum gave way, and all efforts to fill it proving unsuccessful, the oracles were appealed to.
		The mother mourned with her daughter over the sufferings brought upon them by the rich, for whom their poor father and brothers were obliged to fight the battles while they were not allowed to share the spoil, nor to divide the lands gained by their own prowess.
		He succeeded, and led them to battle, and, though his army won victory, was himself killed in the combat (B.C. The other members of the family took up the cause, cared kindly for the wounded, and thus still further ingratiated themselves with the army.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/tsrfe10.txt (17058 words)

	The Story of Rome From The Earliest Times to The End of The Republic By Arthur Gilman, M.A.- Chapter 10 from Nalanda ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In the dead of night, but by the bright light of the moon we may suppose, since the battle of Allia was fought at the full of the moon, the daring barbarians began slowly and with great difficulty to climb the rocky hill.
		Success at first followed the Samnite banners, and this was notably the case at the battle of Caudine Forks, fought in a pass on the road from Capua to Beneventum (then Maleventum), in the year 321, when the Romans were entrapped and all obliged to pass under the yoke.
		The war was decided by a battle fought in 295, on the ridge of the Apennines, near the town of Sentinum in Umbria, where the allies had all managed to unite their forces.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/roman/chapter10.html (5385 words)

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		Euripides is born 479 The Battles of Plataea and Mycale complete the repulse of Persia 474 Etruscan fleet is destroyed by the Sicilian Greeks 470 Voyage of Hanno 466 Pericles 465 Xerxes murdered 438 Herodotus recites his History in Athens 431 Pelponnesian War begins (to 404) 429 Pericles dies.
		Philip is murdered 334 Battle of the Granicus 333 Battle of Issus 332 Alexander in Egypt 331 Battle of Arbela 330 Darius III is killed 323 Death of Alexander the Great 321 Rise of Chandragupta in the Punjab.
		The Romans are completely beaten by the Samnites at the Battle of Caudine Forks 303 Chandragupta repulses Seleucus 285 Ptolemy Soter dies 281 Pyrrhus invades Italy 280 Battle of Heraclea 279 Battle of Ausculum 278 Gauls raid into Asia Minor and settlements in Galatia 275 Pyrrhus leaves Italy 264 First Punic War begins.
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	Related WordNet synsets for SUMO concept Battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (1805); the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian and Austrian armies of Czar Alexander I and Emperor Francis II
		a battle in 1513; the English defeated the invading Scots and James IV of Scotland was killed
		a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between General Custer's cavalry and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command
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	SCC Forums -> Week 1 Preview - Samnium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In battle, the Samnites were fierce and clever.
		This unit is equipped with two javelins, one to be thrown before the charge, and the other often held on to during battle as a melee weapon; acting as a short spear.
		These troops have a powerful charge in battle, and are especially skilled for the mountainous environment of their homeland.
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	Summary of Important Events in Unification
		Battle of Caudine Forks--20,000 Romans captured, but Rome can now put an army of 40,000 in the field.
		Critical battle of Sentinum and of Clusium when the Samnites and Etruscans defeated respectively, but separately.
		That Rome would wage such a war against all these forces at the same time is a sure indication of the overwhelming resources she commanded --four field legions (4x4500) with at least as many allies for a total of 37,000 or more(more than Alexander had taken to Asia).
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~klio/rr/05-war&const_table.htm (397 words)

	NOVA ROMA ::: Camenaeum ::: RES PUBLICA
		Battle of the Caudine Forks; Roman army forced to surrender to the Samnites.
		Romans defeated by Pyrrhus at the Battle of Asculum.
		Hannibal crosses the Alps and invades Italia, Roman army defeated at Battle of Trebia.
	www.novaroma.org /camenaeum/republic.htm (544 words)

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		It is alluded to directly in Don Quixote by the battle with the wineskins, and like Cervantes its author used the hero\rquote s journey as a framework on which to hang numerous other stories.
		Perhaps the most notable of its digressions is the lengthy tale of Cupid and Psyche, a story which is not directed to the narrator but to which he can listen anyway since no one s uspects him of possessing human understanding.
		They smashed a Roman army at the battle of the Caudine Forks in 321 BC, and went on to ally with Pyrrhus and Hannibal.
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	Chronology of the Great Empires
		321 B.C. The Battle of the Caudine Forks (Caudium) brings defeat to a Roman army trapped by the Samnites in a pass near Beneventum.
		Judah is survived by his older brother Simon and his youngest, Jonathan, who succeeds as leader and will make Judea a nearly independent principality by the time of his death in 143 B.C. January 1 becomes the first day of the civil year in Rome.
		Slaves from lands conquered by Rome's legions provide much of the power for Roman agriculture, being able to follow verbal orders even though they are less powerful and less docile than horses, whose efficiency is limited also by lack of metal horseshoes and lack of proper harnesses.
	www.b17.com /family/lwp/chronology/empires.html (8943 words)

	RPG Vault: Legion Arena Campaign Guide #1
		At the pass known as the Claudine Forks, their commander, Pontius, judged that such a moment had come.
		There is little doubt that the Roman commanders would have realized the broken terrain of the shorter route would make it difficult for the Legions to deploy into battle formation if attacked, but, in their eagerness to bring the Samnites to battle, this fear was discounted.
		The Claudine Forks is really two passes linked by a road that crosses a small river meandering through a grassy plain.
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	All words on Caesium
		What was the decisive battle in the civil war between Pompey and in their proscription?
		Give a brief account of the battle of the Caudine Forks, and of the final peace between the Romans and the Samnites.
		In the Roman State what three rights did Rome reserve for (_or Latins_) (2) Rome and sketch the river Tiber and the outline of Latium (6).
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	Cardinal Classic X: Hey, It Beats Cow Tipping
		He was made a national hero, however, for opposing Swedish and German incursions, most notably near Pskov at a 1242 battle on a frozen lake.
		This Italian tribe fought three wars with Rome between 354 and 290, winning the battle of the Caudine Forks and were not decisively defeated until the Social War.
		This October 1944 battle was the largest naval engagement of the war.
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	Ancient Peoples of Italy
		True imperial expansion of Rome starts in 295 BC when the Romans, at the Battle of Sentium (near modern Ancona), put an end to the competition in Italy by defeating a combined force of Samnites and Etruscans.
		In the year 321 BC Samnium defeated the Romans at the Battle of the Caudine Forks near Benevento.
		They fought and lost alongside of the Etruscans against the Greeks at the famous battle of Cuma in the 6th century BC, a defeat that marked the end of Etruscan power in Italy.
	faculty.ed.umuc.edu /~jmatthew/naples/ancient.html (1689 words)

	The Story of Rome From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic : HOW THE REPUBLIC BECAME AN EMPIRE. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The next day they were rejoiced by the addition of the poet Virgil and several more friends to the party, and pleasantly they jogged onwards until their mules deposited their pack- saddles at Capua, where Mæcenas was soon engaged in a game of tennis, while Horace and Virgil sought repose.
		The next stop was not far from the celebrated Caudine Forks, at a friend's villa, where they were very hospitably entertained, and supplied with a bountiful supper, at which buffoons performed some droll raillery.
		Thence they went directly to Beneventum, where the bustling landlord almost burned himself and those he entertained in cooking their dainty dinner, the kitchen fire falling through the floor and spreading the flames towards the highest part of the roof.
	www.annourbis.com /Story-of-Rome/rome_how_the_republic_became.html (3032 words)

	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.
		168 BC June 22, Battle of Pydna (eastern Greece), Third Macedonian War (172-167) ends with the defeat of Perseus of Macedon (son of Philip V) and his army of 44,000 by Lucius Aemilius Paulus and Roman force of 25,000 after which Macedonia (Greece) becomes a Roman Province.
	www.legionxxiv.org /republictimeline (3697 words)

	Battle of the Caudine Forks - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Battle of the Caudine Forks - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Battle of the Caudine Forks - Your Art History Reference Guide!
		For example Erich Eyck in "A History of the Weimar Republic " uses this example to emphasize the folly of the Entente powers: they defeated and humiliated Germany in the First World War without significantly weakening her, and thus opened the way to the rise to power of Hitler.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Battle_of_the_Caudine_Forks (531 words)

	Outlines of Roman History, Chapter 17
		He incited the people to revolt, and even defeated the Romans in a battle; but he was himself soon defeated and made a prisoner.
		At one time the Roman general was defeated and obliged to sign a treaty of peace, acknowledging the independence of the Spanish tribe.
		But the senate—repeating what it had done many years before, after the battle of the Caudine Forks—refused to ratify this treaty, and surrendered the Roman commander to the enemy.
	www.forumromanum.org /history/morey17.html (2089 words)

	Roman Foreign Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Gauls from northern Italy occupied and burned the city in 390 B.C. only to be bought off (or defeated in battle) before withdrawing.
		In a series of wars lasting from 327 to 291 B.C., punctuated by some notable setbacks for Rome such as the battle of Caudine Forks (321), the Romans ultimately prevailed.
		Rome also had to deal with the Etruscans, first subduing Veii (396), only about twelve miles distant, and then picking off the other cities of the Etruscan League one by one in campaigns lasting from 314 to 280.
	www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /rome-foreign-relations.htm (3363 words)

	THE THIRD HITTITE EMPIRE
		Necho IV, and his son Wahibre, both die in the battle, extinguishing the 26th Dynasty.
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		Alexander are killed in the battle, and the Macedonian army is almost annihilated.
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