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Battle of Herdonia

The first Battle of Herdonia was fought in 212 BC during the Second Punic War between Hannibal's Carthaginian army and Roman forces led by Praetor Gnaeus Fulvius Flaccus, brother of the consul Quintus Fulvius Flaccus. The Roman army was destroyed, leaving Apulia free of Romans for the year.

Battle of Herdonia
Battle of Herdonia · Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
212 BCE
Where
Ordona
Era
Classical

Topics

Italy753 BCE – today

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