First battle of Capua
Coordinates: 41 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ N , 14 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E
Hannibal's campaign in the Second Punic War
| date | 212 BC Chr. |
|---|---|
| place | Capua, Italy (now Santa Maria Capua Vetere ) |
| output | Carthaginian victory |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
| Troop strength | |
| around 30,000 men | 8 legions, about 40,000 men |
| losses | |
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unknown |
unknown |
Saguntum - Lilybaeum II - Rhone - Ticinus - Trebia - Cissa - Lake Trasimeno - Ager Falernus - Geronium - Cannae - Nola I - Nola II - Ibera - Cornus - Nola III - Beneventum I - Syracuse - Tarentum I - Capua I - Beneventum II - Silarus - Herdonia I - Upper Baetis - Capua II - Herdonia II - Numistro - Asculum - Tarentum II - New Carthage - Baecula - Grumentum - Metaurus - Ilipa - Crotona - Large fields - Cirta - Zama
The First Battle of Capua was a skirmish between the Romans and the Carthaginians around 212 BC. In the Second Punic War. Hannibal won the battle.
The battle
2000 Numidian horsemen attacked and were able to cause considerable damage in skirmishes of the garrison of the weakly fortified Roman camp. The legions swallowed the bait and began to pursue the Numidians. In the meantime Hannibal was able to move his infantry into the plain in front of the city and thereby cut off the Romans from supplies from the city. Hannibal now marched towards the camp and fell in the back of the legionaries. Before one of the Roman generals could react, the cavalry had turned and now surrounded the Romans in turn. Claudius Pulcher lost his nerve and fled with his bodyguards, which weakened the morale of the Romans. Meanwhile the allies had come from the city and were now trying to break through the Carthaginian lines. But the encircled legions had already lost courage and fled the battlefield.
See also
literature
- Peter Connolly : Hannibal and the enemies of Rome. Tessloff, ISBN 978-3788601829 .
- Pedro Barcelo: Hannibal: strategist and statesman. Klett-Cotta, ISBN 978-3608943016 .