Battle of Chaeronea

When

86 BCE

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

38.50° N, 22.86° E

Description

battle in 86 BCE

Victory of Sulla over Archelaus of Pontus

The Battle of Chaeronea was fought by the Roman forces of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Mithridates' general, Archelaus, near Chaeronea, in Boeotia, in 86 BC during the First Mithridatic War. The battle ended with a complete rout of the Pontic army and a decisive victory for the Romans.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Roman forces of Lucius Cornelius Sulla defeat the Pontic forces of Archelaus in the Battle of Chaeronea”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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• First Mithridatic War89 BCE · War