Second battle of Beneventum
Coordinates: 41 ° 7 ′ 52 ″ N , 14 ° 46 ′ 41 ″ E
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Location of Beneventum on an old map
| date | 212 BC Chr. |
|---|---|
| place | Beneventum, today Benevento |
| output | roman victory |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
| Troop strength | |
| unknown | few |
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 Second Battle of Beneventum was one during the Second Punic War in 212 BC. Chr. Material discharged battle between the consul Quintus Fulvius Flaccus listed Roman army and Carthaginian units.
The main guarantor for this battle is the Roman historian Titus Livius , who in the 25th book of his historical work Ab urbe condita provides a heavily embellished account of it. Night of the election of Quintus Fulvius Flaccus and Appius Claudius Pulcher as consuls of the year 212 BC. Both went to the theater of war in Samnium . Since Hannibal feared that the consuls would besiege Capua with all their might, he ordered the Carthaginian military leader Hanno to stock up Capua. Hanno moved to Benevento (Latin: Beneventum ), had all the grain from the previous year collected and stored it in a warehouse near the city. But when Fulvius Flaccus heard about it, he advanced quickly against Benevento, stormed the Carthaginian camp after a violent battle and seized all the supplies stored there. Most of Hanno's army had been destroyed; he himself escaped to Bruttium with a few companions .
swell
- Titus Livius : Ab urbe condita XXV 13, 1 - 15, 3.
- Appian , Hannibalika 37.
literature
- Friedrich Münzer : Fulvius 59. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 1, Stuttgart 1910, Col. 243-246 (here: 244).