Cataclysm 90 BC: The Forgotten War That Almost Destroyed Rome
Cataclysm 90 BC: The Forgotten War That Almost Destroyed Rome We are accustomed to think of the late Republic as a period in which Rome enjoyed almost uninterrupted military success against foreign…
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Cataclysm 90 BC: The Forgotten War That Almost Destroyed Rome
We are accustomed to think of the late Republic as a period in which Rome enjoyed almost uninterrupted military success against foreign enemies. It is probable that only a swift surrender prevented the city from being attacked and sacked. Yet at the start of the first century BC, Rome, outnumbered and out-generaled, faced a hostile army less than a week's march from the capitol.
So who were this enemy who so comprehensively knocked Rome to its knees? Before that point, three Roman consuls had died in battle, and two Roman armies had been soundly defeated - not in some foreign field, but in the heartland of Italy. What army could successfully challenge the legions which had been undefeated from Spain to the Euphrates?
And why is that success almost unknown today?These questions are answered in this book, a military and political history of the Social War of 90-88 BC. This
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