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The Battle of Cannae (/ ˈ k æ n i,-eɪ,-aɪ /; [c] Latin: [ˈkanːae̯]) was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 BC near the ancient village of Cannae in Apulia, southeast Italy.
Roman–Hunnic battles (447–452) 447 – Battle of the Utus – The Eastern Romans fought an indecisive battle with Huns led by Attila. 450 – Huns led by Attila invaded Gaul. [17] 451, 20 June – Battle of the Catalaunian Plains – The Romans with Flavius Aetius and the Visigoths with Theodoric, defend against Attila, ruler of the Hunnic ...
This battle is said to be the largest, most hard-fought, and bloodiest of all clashes between Roman forces. [1] According to English historian Edward Gibbon, the Roman historian Cassius Dio placed the total number of Roman soldiers engaged for both sides combined at 150,000. [2]
Battle of Carrhae: 53 BC Roman–Persian Wars: 24,000 [185] Battle of Pharsalus: 48 BC Caesar's Civil War: 17,000 [186] Battle of Philippi: 42 BC Liberators' civil war: 24,000 [187] Battle of Actium: 31 BC Final War of the Roman Republic: 7,500+ [188] Battle of the Teutoburg Forest: AD 9 Roman–Germanic wars: 20,000 [189] Battle of Idistaviso ...
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, also called the Varus Disaster or Varian Disaster (Latin: Clades Variana) by Roman historians, was a major battle between Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire that took place somewhere near modern Kalkriese from September 8–11, 9 AD, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed three Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus and their auxiliaries.
Because the study of Roman civil war has been deeply influenced by historic Roman views on civil war, not all entries on this list may be considered civil wars by modern historians. Implicit in most Roman power struggles was a propaganda battle, which impacted how the struggle would be chronicled and referred to.
113–101 BC, Germanic Collision with the Roman Republic, Cimbrian War, Beginning of Germanic Wars. 112 BC, Battle of Noreia, [1] Suicide of Consul Gnaeus Papirius Carbo. 107 BC, Helvetii defeat the Romans in the Battle of Agen, [2] Consul Lucius Cassius Longinus dies in battle, [2] General Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus dies in battle. [2]
The First Jewish-Roman War, sometimes called The Great Revolt, was the first of three major rebellions by the Jews of Judaea against the Roman Empire. [301] According to Fergus Millar, the revolt represents "the best-attested series of operations by the Roman army in the entire history of the Empire."