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Battle of Ager Falernus, the Glossary

The Battle of Ager Falernus was a skirmish during the Second Punic War between the armies of Rome and Carthage.^[1]

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Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula.

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Ancient Carthage

Ancient Carthage (𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕) was an ancient Semitic civilisation based in North Africa.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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The Apennines or Apennine Mountains (Ἀπέννινα ὄρη or Ἀπέννινον ὄρος; Appenninus or Apenninus Mons– a singular with plural meaning; Appennini)Latin Apenninus (Greek Ἀπέννινος or Ἀπέννινα) has the form of an adjective, which would be segmented Apenn-inus, often used with nouns such as mons ("mountain") or Greek ὄρος, but Apenninus is just as often used alone as a noun.

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Appian Way

The Appian Way (Latin and Italian: Via Appia) is one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic.

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Apulia

Apulia, also known by its Italian name Puglia, is a region of Italy, located in the southern peninsular section of the country, bordering the Adriatic Sea to the east, the Strait of Otranto and Ionian Sea to the southeast and the Gulf of Taranto to the south.

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Arpi

Arpi (Ἄρποι), Argyrippa (Ἀργύριππα), and Argos Hippium (Ἄργος Ἵππιον) was an ancient city of Apulia, Italy, 16 miles (26 km) west of the sea coast, and 2 miles (3.5 km) north of modern Foggia (next to the modern Arpi Nova).

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B. H. Liddell Hart

Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (31 October 1895 – 29 January 1970), commonly known throughout most of his career as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was a British soldier, military historian, and military theorist.

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Battle of Lake Trasimene

The Battle of Lake Trasimene was fought when a Carthaginian force under Hannibal Barca ambushed a Roman army commanded by Gaius Flaminius on 21 June 217 BC, during the Second Punic War. Battle of Ager Falernus and Battle of Lake Trasimene are 210s BC conflicts, 217 BC, battles involving the Roman Republic and battles of the Second Punic War.

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Battle of Ticinus

The Battle of Ticinus was fought between the Carthaginian forces of Hannibal and a Roman army under Publius Cornelius Scipio in late November 218 BC as part of the Second Punic War. Battle of Ager Falernus and Battle of Ticinus are 210s BC conflicts and battles of the Second Punic War.

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Benevento

Benevento (Beneviento) is a city and comune (municipality) of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, northeast of Naples.

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Cales

Cales was an ancient city of Campania, in today's comune of Calvi Risorta in southern Italy, belonging originally to the Aurunci/Ausoni, on the Via Latina.

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Campania

Campania is an administrative region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the island of Capri.

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Capua

Capua is a city and comune in the province of Caserta, in the region of Campania, southern Italy, situated north of Naples, on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain.

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Casilinum

Casilinum (Κασιλῖνον) was an ancient city of Campania, Italy, situated some 3 miles north-west of the ancient Capua.

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Fabian strategy

The Fabian strategy is a military strategy where pitched battles and frontal assaults are avoided in favor of wearing down an opponent through a war of attrition and indirection.

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George Philip Baker

George Philip Baker (Plumstead, 21 May 1879 – 19 April 1951) was a British author, who published several popular history books in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Gnaeus Servilius Geminus

Gnaeus Servilius Geminus (died August 2, 216 BC) was a Roman consul, serving as both general and admiral of Roman forces, during the Second Punic War.

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Hannibal

Hannibal (translit; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Latium

Latium is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.

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Leonard Cottrell

Leonard Eric Cottrell (21 May 1913 – 6 October 1974) was a British author and journalist.

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List of military disasters

A military disaster is the defeat of one side in a battle or war which results in the complete failure of the losing side to achieve their objectives.

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Livy

Titus Livius (59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy, was a Roman historian.

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Magister equitum

The magister equitum, in English Master of the Horse or Master of the Cavalry, was a Roman magistrate appointed as lieutenant to a dictator.

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Maharbal

Maharbal (𐤌‬𐤄‬𐤓𐤁‬𐤏𐤋,; Μαάρβας; centuryBC) was a Numidian army commander in charge of the cavalry under Hannibal and his second-in-command during the Second Punic War.

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Marcus Minucius Rufus

Marcus Minucius Rufus (died August 2, 216 BC) was a Roman consul in 221 BC.

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Monte Massico

Monte Massico (Latin: Mons Massicus) is a mountain situated in the Italian Province of Caserta (Campania) between the rivers Volturno and Garigliano.

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Mountain warfare

Mountain warfare or alpine warfare is warfare in mountains or similarly rough terrain.

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Narni

Narni (Narnia) is an ancient hilltown and comune (municipality) of Umbria, in central Italy, with 19,252 inhabitants (2017).

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Ostia Antica

Ostia Antica is an ancient Roman city and the port of Rome located at the mouth of the Tiber.

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Otricoli

Otricoli is a town and comune in the province of Terni, Umbria, central Italy.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Perugia

Perugia (Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber.

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Picenum

Picenum was a region of ancient Italy.

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Polybius

Polybius (Πολύβιος) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period.

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Praetor

Praetor, also pretor, was the title granted by the government of ancient Rome to a man acting in one of two official capacities: (i) the commander of an army, and (ii) as an elected magistratus (magistrate), assigned to discharge various duties.

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Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, surnamed Cunctator (280 – 203 BC), was a Roman statesman and general of the third century BC.

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Rimini

Rimini (Rémin or; Ariminum) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.

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Roman consul

A consul was the highest elected public official of the Roman Republic (to 27 BC).

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Roman dictator

A Roman dictator was an extraordinary magistrate in the Roman Republic endowed with full authority to resolve some specific problem to which he had been assigned.

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Roman Republic

The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Samnium

Samnium (Sannio) is a Latin exonym for a region of Southern Italy anciently inhabited by the Samnites.

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Scurvy

Scurvy is a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid).

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Second Punic War

The Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC) was the second of three wars fought between Carthage and Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC. Battle of Ager Falernus and second Punic War are 210s BC conflicts and Hannibal.

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Sibylline Books

The Sibylline Books (Libri Sibyllini) were a collection of oracular utterances, set out in Greek hexameter verses, that, according to tradition, were purchased from a sibyl by the last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and consulted at momentous crises through the history of the Roman Republic and the Empire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ager_Falernus

, Telese Terme, Tivoli, Lazio, Umbria, University of Nebraska Press, Wiley-Blackwell.

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210s BC conflicts

217 BC

Battles of the Second Punic War

Hannibal

Military history of Campania

Night battles

References