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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 (378) Battle of Corsica ...
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 Battle of the Arar was fought between the migrating tribes of the Helvetii and six Roman legions under the command of Gaius Julius Caesar in 58 BC. It was the first major battle of the Gallic Wars and ended in a tactical victory for the outnumbered Roman army.
The core of the campaign history of the Roman military is an aggregate of different accounts of the Roman military's land battles, from its initial defense against and subsequent conquest of the city's hilltop neighbors on the Italian peninsula, to the ultimate struggle of the Western Roman Empire for its existence against invading Huns ...