10 Sept 216 Jahr v. Chr. - Battle of Silva Litana
Beschreibung:
Battle between Romans and Gauls of Northern Italytook place in a forest 75 miles northwest of the Roman city of Ariminum in 216 BC. The Gallic Boii surprised and destroyed a Roman army of 25,000 men under the consul-elect Lucius Postumius Albinus. Only ten men escaped the ambush, few prisoners were taken and Postumius was killed, decapitated and his skull covered with gold by the Boii. News of the military disaster, coming either several days or months after the defeat at Cannae, triggered a renewed panic in Rome and the Romans postponed military operations against the Gauls until the conclusion of the Second Punic War.
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10 Sept 216 Jahr v. Chr.
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~ 2242 years ago
