Second battle of Nola
Coordinates: 40 ° 55 ′ 34 ″ N , 14 ° 31 ′ 39 ″ E
| date | 215 BC Chr. |
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| place | Nola , in what is now Italy |
| output | draw |
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few |
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 Second Battle of Nola was Hannibal's second attempt to defeat this city in 215 BC. To take by storm. The battle was not very different from the First Battle of Nola.
prehistory
The draw in 216 BC Chr. Had annoyed the Carthaginian general so that he wanted to take the city without necessity. At the Second Battle of Nola he was better equipped and let his soldiers climb the enemy walls with ladders at night.
procedure
The intended element of surprise did not materialize: the legionaries stationed on the walls lit torches so that Marcellus and the others could wake up and rush to the battle. A division of the Roman Epues was able to make a sortie and destroy the tools of the siege. Many Carthaginians were killed in this surprise attack, the rest fled back to the camp.
consequences
The outcome of the battle had neither military nor political effects, but this victory increased the legionnaires' self-confidence in the fight against the Carthaginians. In the next year, Hannibal made another - again unsuccessful - attempt to take the city ( Third Battle of Nola ).
See also
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- Peter Connolly : Hannibal and the enemies of Rome , ISBN 3-7886-0182-5 , page 73 ff
- Leonard Cottrell: Hannibal, the enemy of Rome , ISBN 978-0-03-030720-1 , p. 172f