Battle of Vercellae
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The Battle of Vercellae, or Battle of the Raudine Plain, was fought on 30 July 101 BC on a plain near Vercellae in Gallia Cisalpina (modern day Northern Italy). A Germanic-Celtic confederation under the command of the Cimbric king Boiorix was defeated by a Roman army under the joint command of the consul Gaius Marius and the proconsul Quintus Lutatius Catulus.[3] The battle marked the end of the Germanic threat to the Roman Republic.[4]
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Battle of Vercellae | |||||||
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Part of the Cimbrian War | |||||||
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The battle of Vercellae, from the Ca' Dolfin Tiepolos, 1725-1729 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Roman Republic | Cimbri | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Gaius Marius Quintus Lutatius Catulus Lucius Cornelius Sulla |
Boiorix † Lugius † Claodicus (POW) Caesorix (POW) | ||||||
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52,000–54,000 soldiers (legionaries and auxiliaries) | 120,000–180,000 warrior including 15,000 cavalry (400,000 including civilians) | ||||||
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1,000 killed[1] 300 killed (Florus)[2] |
160,000 killed (Livy) 140,000 killed (Orosius) 60,000 captured 120,000 killed (Plutarch) 60,000 captured 100,000 killed or captured (Paterculus) 65,000 killed (Florus) | ||||||
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