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Battle of Carteia – Roman fleet under Gaius Laelius defeats a Carthaginian fleet under Adherbal; 204 BC – Battle of Crotona – Hannibal fights a drawn battle against the Roman general Sempronius in Southern Italy. 203 BC – Battle of Bagbrades – Romans under Scipio defeat the Carthaginian army of Hasdrubal Gisco and Syphax. Hannibal is ...
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 ...
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.
[185] [186] The Roman Senate authorised the raising of a force of 86,000 men, the largest in Roman history to that point. [187] [188] Paullus and Varro marched southward to confront Hannibal, who accepted battle on the open plain near Cannae.
The advance at the proper moment of the African infantry, and its wheel right and left upon the flanks of the disordered and crowded Roman legionaries, is far beyond praise. The whole battle, from the Carthaginian standpoint, is a consummate piece of art, having no superior, few equal, examples in the history of war. [103]
Bubble chart of wars with over 1.5 million deaths. [222] Combatant deaths in conventional wars, 1800-2011. [223] Seven deadliest wars after 1900. The length of each spiral segment is proportional to the war's duration and its area size to its death toll.
Battle of Campi Cannini; Battle of Carnuntum; Battle of Carrhae (296) Capture of Carthage (439) Vandal conquest of Roman Africa; Battle of Carthage (238) Battle of Châlons (274) Battle of the Catalaunian Plains; Chronology of warfare between the Romans and Germanic peoples; Battle of Chrysopolis; Battle of Cibalae; Battle of Constantinople ...