Battle of Silva Litana
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title:
Battle of Silva Litana
text:
The Battle of Silva Litana was an ambush that took place in a forest 75 miles northwest of the Roman city of Ariminum during the Second Punic War in 216 BC. The Gallic Boii surprised and destroyed a Roman army under the consul-elect Lucius Postumius Albinus. Of 25,000 Romans, only 10 survived, with a few being taken prisoner by the Gauls. The corpse of Postumius was decapitated and his skull was made into a gilded ceremonial cup by the Boii. News of this military disaster probably reached Rome a
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Battle of the Second Punic War
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Silva_Litana
date created:
2018-07-05T19:04:38Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T08:22:13Z
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