Battle of Grumentum

Date	207 BC
Location	Grumentum, present-day Italy
Result	minor Roman victory

Belligerents

Carthage

Roman Republic

Commanders and leaders

Hannibal, Mago

Gaius Claudius Nero

Strength

5,000

6,000 infantry 600 cavalry

Casualties and losses

800 killed, 700 captured

500 killed

Second Punic War

Prelude

Hannibal's invasion of Italy

Roman expeditions to Iberia

Campaigns in Sicily and the western Mediterranean

Roman invasion of Northeast Africa

Naval battles

The Battle of Grumentum was fought in 207 BC between Romans led by Gaius Claudius Nero, and a part of Hannibal's Carthaginian army. The battle was a minor Roman victory, and Nero marched north where he defeated and killed Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal at Metaurus. The battle is described by Livy at 27.41-42.^[1]

References

↑ Livy's History of Rome, Book 27 at Project Gutenberg

Punic Wars

First Punic War	Messana Agrigentum Lipari Islands Mylae Sulci Tyndaris Cape Ecnomus Aspis Adys Tunis Cape Hermaeum Panormus 1st Drepana 1st Lilybaeum 2nd Drepana Mount Ercte 1st Mt. Eryx 2nd Mt. Eryx Aegates/Egadi Islands

Mercenary War	Utica Bagradas River Hamilcar's victory with Naravas Carthage "The Saw" Tunis

Second Punic War	Saguntum Crossing of the Alps Lilybaeum Rhone Ticinus Trebia Cissa Lake Trasimene Ebro River Ager Falernus Geronium Cannae 1st Nola Dertosa 2nd Nola Cornus 3rd Nola 1st Beneventum Syracuse 1st Tarentum 1st Capua 2nd Beneventum Silarus 1st Herdonia Upper Baetis 2nd Capua 2nd Herdonia Numistro Asculum 2nd Tarentum Baecula Grumentum Metaurus New Carthage Ilipa Guadalquivir Carteia Crotona Utica Great Plains Cirta Po Valley Zama

Third Punic War	Lake Tunis 1st Nepheris Port of Carthage 2nd Nepheris Carthage

Military history

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