Battle of Camerinum
Battle of Camerinum | |||||||
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Part of the Third Samnite War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Roman Republic | Samnium | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus | Gellius Equatius | ||||||
![]() ![]() class=notpageimage| Location within Italy |
The Battle of Camerinum in 298 BC was the first battle of the Third Samnite War. In the battle, the Samnites, assisted by the Gauls, defeated the Romans, who were commanded by Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus.[1] Scipio was supposed to have stopped the Gauls from crossing a mountain pass in the Apennines, but failed, and the combined force of Samnites and Gauls defeated Scipio's two legions.[2]
References[]
- ^ Gill, N.S. "A Table of Roman Battles". Retrieved 31 July 2012.
- ^ Harbottle, Thomas Benfield (1904). Dictionary of battles from the earliest date to the present time. London: S. Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd. pp. 47.
Camerinum.
Categories:
- Battles involving the Gauls
- 290s BC conflicts
- Battles involving the Roman Republic
- 298 BC
- Battles in Marche
- 3rd century BC in the Roman Republic
- Camerino
- Ancient Roman battle stubs