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  Samnite Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Samnite Wars were three wars between the early Roman Republic and the tribes of Samnium.
The most powerful group of the highlanders, the confederated Samnites, were now, in the middle of the fourth century, swarming down upon their civilized precursors in Campania, as, farther east and south, Lucanians and Bruttians were pressing upon the Greek colonies of Magna Gracia.
The war was ended by a hasty peace, owing to the revolt of Rome's Latin allies who resented their dependence on the dominant city.
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 Samnite Wars: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/samnite_wars.htm   (1346 words)

  
 List of conflicts in Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Second Samnite War (327 BC - 304 BC)
Third Samnite War (298 BC - 290 BC)
Wars of the Diadochi (323 BC - 280 BC)
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 Samnite Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In the first part, the Romans attempted to encircle the Samnites, but were trapped at the Battle of the Caudine Forks and forced to surrender.
Their next strategy was to establish colonies and build the Via Appia to improve access to Capua, and in the end even the Samnite attempt to bring in the Etruscans did not prevail.
The Samnites again formed an alliance with the Etruscans, and added the Gauls, but in the battle of Sentinum in 295, the Romans defeated the combined force.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/sa/samnite_wars.html   (266 words)

  
 H102_24
Wars against the Expelled Kings and neighboring Etruscans, 510-410 BC Wars against the Gauls and neighboring Italians 390-380
Through conflict with Samnite mountain tribes and Gallic and Spanish warriors elsewhere, the Romans adapted to the use of throwing spears as missiles and hand-to-hand combat with short "Spanish" swords.
The Romans claimed to have always fought “just wars.” The meaning of this was largely religious: the Romans always attempted to conduct the necessary rituals preliminary to open conflict with an adversary.
web.ics.purdue.edu /~rauhn/Roman_Imperialism.htm   (2261 words)

  
 Samnite or Umbrian - DBA 30c
The Samnites, however, continued their warlike behavior for some time thereafter, aiding Hannibal in his campaigns against Rome and fighting against Sulla in the Social War (89-88 BC), who repaid the favor by decimating the Samnite population.
The Second Samnite War saw significant reforms of the Roman military, including creation of the maniple and adoption of the scutum (shield) and pilum (heavy javelin), the later two of which may have been copied from the Samnites.
Both Samnite cities were burned to the ground, and Rome continued to grab Samnite territory and seize plunder, including a meticulously recorded 2.5 million pounds of bronze and 1830 pounds of silver.
www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/dba30c.html   (1233 words)

  
 Basilicata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They were sometimes in alliance with Rome, but more frequently engaged in hostilities, during the Samnite wars.
When Pyrrhus of Epirus landed in Italy, 281 they were among the first to declare in his favor, and after his abrupt departure they were reduced to subjection, in a ten year campaign (272).
Enmity continued to run deep; they espoused the cause of Hannibal during the Second Punic War (216), and Lucania was ravaged by both armies during several campaigns.
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 The Samnite Wars (341-290 B.C.)
Both the rugged terrain and the tough Samnite soldiers proved to be formidable challenges, which forced Rome to adopt military innovations that were later important for conquering the Mediterranean.
Despite its brevity (343-341 B.C.), the First Samnite War resulted in the major acquisition to the Roman state of the rich land of Campania with its capital of Capua.
The Third Samnite War (298-290 B.C.) was the last desperate attempt of the Samnites to remain independent.
www.thelatinlibrary.com /imperialism/notes/samnitewars.html   (1564 words)

  
 The Wargamer - Board Game Review: The Rise of the Roman Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Rise of the Roman Republic deals with four distinct military phases of Roman ascendancy: The Samnite Wars; the invasion of Alexander of Molossia; the invasion of Pyrrhus of Epirus; and the invasion of Hannibal, otherwise known as the Second Punic War.
The struggle to unite the Italian peninsula under Roman rule begins with the Samnite Wars of the late 4th Century B.C.E. Italia during this period was a land awash with fractious tribes whose shifting alliances maintained a precious balance of power.
Not until the Second Samnite War did the Romans decisively rout the Samnites, who, after several devastating defeats, continued to raise larger and larger armies in a glorious display of Herculean denial.
www.wargamer.com /reviews/rise_of_roman_republic   (733 words)

  
 Appian's History of early Rome
He exaggerated the difficulty of the war if it should be necessary to put down such a large body of men, who would fight with the energy of despair.
While the Samnites were raiding and plundering the territory of Fregellae, the Romans captured eighty-one villages belonging to the Samnites and the Daunii, slew 21,000 of their men, and drove them out of the Fregellian country.
Again the Samnites sent ambassadors to Rome bringing the dead bodies of the men whom they had executed as guilty of causing the war, and also gold taken from their store.
www.livius.org /ap-ark/appian/appian_samnite_1.html   (2203 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Roman Republic
In Sicily the first war broke out between Rome and Carthage, resulting in, at first, a series of victories for Carthage until Rome refitted its navy using a captured Carthaginian vessel as a model.
The war ended when the two signed a treaty giving Rome control of Sicily, but in 238 BC the mercenary troops of Carthage revolted and Rome took the opportunity to capture Corsica away from Carthage.
The Carthaginians refused and Rome declared war, placing command to Scipio Aemilianus, who besieged the city for three long years before breaching the walls and sacking Carthage, even, according to legend, going so far as to sow salt into the earth so that nothing might ever grown again in Carthage.
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 Outlines of Roman History, Chapter 11   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The cities in Campania revolted, the Samnites conquered Luceria in Apulia and Fregellae on the Liris, and gained an important victory in the south of Latium near Anxur.
This war is known as the third Samnite war, but it was in fact a war between Rome and the principal nations of Italy—the Samnites, the Umbrians, the Etruscans, and the Gauls.
The Samnites, on the contrary, were obliged to depend upon forces which were scattered from one end of the peninsula to the other.
www.forumromanum.org /history/morey11.html   (1599 words)

  
 The Early Republic
In all wars of the fifth century BC the balance of victory lay with Rome and her allies.
The Punic Wars is the generally used term for the lengthy conflict between the two main centres of power in the western Mediterranean, Rome and Carthage.
They had had little wars in Liguria and also in Istria, and in 221 BC their whole field force was in Illyria across the Adriatic destroying the league of pirates which had been harrying the east coast of Italy.
www.roman-empire.net /republic/earlyrepublic.html   (13882 words)

  
 A History of Europe, Chapter 3
Theoretically the king was an absolute monarch; he led the army in war, conducted important religious ceremonies as the chief priest, and passed sentences as the supreme judge.
The Samnites let the legions go in return for a favorable peace treaty and the Romans were so discouraged that they kept the treaty for four years.
War between the two western republics was probably inevitable, because after the war with Pyrrhus, Rome and Carthage thought the world was no longer big enough for both of them.
www.xenohistorian.faithweb.com /europe/eu03.html   (18858 words)

  
 Samnite Wars - History of the Roman Empire
In the 340's BC, while Philip II of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great) was occupied with the Persians to the east, war in Italy broke out on the plains of Campania, near the Greek colony of Neapolis (Naples).
The most powerful group of the highland Sabellian people, the Samnites, in the middle of the fourth century, were invading into Campania and taking territory easily.
The warlike Samnites far outmatched their civilized neighbors and found the fertile lands a much better place for herding than the rough hills of the Appenines.
www.unrv.com /empire/samnite-wars.php   (694 words)

  
 Bryn Mawr College Graduate Student Symposium: All for One or One for All? (Re)constructing Identity in the Ancient World
It is to be distinguished from the term Samnites, which refers to the peoples of the same region who were united against Rome in the late fourth and early third centuries.
This is not surprising since he is writing after Sulla's bloody war against the descendants of the Samnites during the Social or Italian wars at the beginning of the first century B.C. I will now use the Métis of North America as my cultural model for the development of a hybrid identity.
These are the Samnite wars, the war against Pyrrus, the war against Hannibal, and the so-called Social or Italian wars.
www.brynmawr.edu /Acads/Arch/guesswho/leonardis.html   (5125 words)

  
 Appian's History of early Rome
His account of the Samnite wars, which we know from Byzantine excerpts, is unfortunately not among the best preserved parts, but it contains information that we do not know from other sources.
Although they bore the caduceus [1], and wore the garments of their office, Britomaris cut them in pieces and flung the parts away, alleging that his own father had been slain by the Romans while he was waging war in Etruria.
, who was waging war against the Samnites, to suspend operations for the present and invade the territory of the Tarentines, and offer them the same terms that the late embassy had proposed, and if they did not agree, to wage war against them with all his might.
www.livius.org /ap-ark/appian/appian_samnite_2.html   (1287 words)

  
 Third Samnite War
The Third Samnite War became the last desperate attempt of the Samnites to remain independent and were able to convince Rome's old enemies to join against them once again.
Early in the conflict, Rome shattered a Samnite army in the south, allowing attention to be focused on the Etruscans and Gauls in the north.
The years surrounding the Samnite Wars were not only one of military prowess for Rome, but of great public works, as well.
www.unrv.com /empire/third-samnite-war.php   (666 words)

  
 Early Rome and Roman Expansion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Roman expansion in Italy (to 272 BC) A. wars with Etruscans 1.
Etruria conquered by late 3d cent BC B. wars with the Latin League 1.
Carthage destroyed in Third Punic War 146 BC C. Wars with the "successor states" 1.
courses.missouristate.edu /jjh117f/GEP397/lectures/rom01.htm   (553 words)

  
 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
1478 - War between the Principality of Moscow and the Republic of Novgorod.
1532 - 1546 Ottoman-Habsburg War in the Mediterranean
1918 Finnish Civil War, fought between "the reds" (rebellious Socialists) and "the whites" (anti-Socialists) in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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 Free Online Wargames | Associazione Fossalta | Samnite Wars Campaign Game (DBM VERSION)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Samnite Wars Campaign is our first finished game.
Our work is based on Livy Rome History, mainly for warfare flavour of this era, on "Samnium and the Samnites" of E.T. Salmon, for historical accuracy about Samnites and their war power, and on "Magna Graecia" of Rob Smith, for game system.
Furthermore, in that age there weren't permanent armies, and not every one of twenty and more years war lasted, there were battles between Roman and Samnite armies; so this war is not suitable to a full strategic game, with rules typical of multi years games.
games.associazionefossalta.org /en_swcg_dbm.html   (273 words)

  
 Romanian Priest crucifies nun - Neowin.net
God till now was reason peaple used to do war now there are other reason available (the war of Troy - supposed to be done for a woman).
In the end all the wars were done for money, power and control, even Hitlers.
The ideaology of the Area Race (which by the way is the Hilters rename of the ancient Greeks) was formed in order to bring the Germans together, and it was really susccesfull.
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 Timelines for Ancient Roman History adapted from Sandys
FROM THE CAPTURE OF VEII TO THE LATIN WAR
FROM THE END OF THE SAMNITE WARS TO THE FIRST PUNIC WAR
FROM THE THIRD PUNIC WAR TO THE TRIBUNATE OF TI.
www.slu.edu /colleges/AS/languages/classical/latin/tchmat/pedagogy/chron/romchr-i.html   (306 words)

  
 Wars History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
An on-line magazine of military history which features original articles and archives covering wars and campaigns of all periods.
Wars and Conflict section of the BBC History website...
An Internet history of the Great War that is an evolving project.
www.warshistory.info   (852 words)

  
 A History of Rome to the Battle of Actium - Questia Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
- Chapter VI: From the Expulsion of the Kings to the War with Veii 509-403
- Chapter XXIX: Wars with the Boii and Ligures, and in Spain 200-178
- Chapter XLV: The Civil War to the Death of Iulius Caesar
www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=3594897   (378 words)

  
 Fred's Roman History Page
343 - 290 bc - The Samnite wars; Rome gains dominance over central Italy.
280 - 275 bc - War with the King of Epirus: Pyrvhus and Greek cities in southern Italy; Rome controls most of Italy.
The Po Valley (Cisalpine Gaul) is organized into communities of Roman citizens.
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