Battle of Cissa
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battle-of-cissa-173-14877985
title:
Battle of Cissa
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The Battle of Cissa was part of the Second Punic War. It was fought in the fall of 218 BC, near the Celtic town of Tarraco in north-eastern Iberia. A Roman army under Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus defeated an outnumbered Carthaginian army under Hanno, thus gaining control of the territory north of the Ebro River that Hannibal had just subdued a few months prior in the summer of 218 BC. This was the first battle that the Romans had ever fought in Iberia.
It allowed the Romans to establish a secu
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218 BC battle in Spain, part of the Second Punic War
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cissa
date created:
2006-05-13T08:11:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T15:05:15Z
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