What the records say
- When
- 342 BCE
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 40.85° N, 14.05° E
- Description
- battle
Battle of Mount Gaurus
First battle of the First Samnite War
The Battle of Mount Gaurus, 343 BC, was the first battle of the First Samnite War and also the first battle fought between the Roman Republic and the Samnites. The battle is described by the Roman historian Livy as part of Book Seven of his history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita Libri, where he narrates how the Roman consul Marcus Valerius Corvus won a hard-fought battle against the Samnites at Mount Gaurus, near Cumae, in…
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Battle of Mount Gaurus is fought between the Romans and the Samnites”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sieg der Römer über die Samniten bei Saticula (östlich Capua) und am Berg Gaurus (bei Cumae)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Batalla del Monte Gauro entre los romanos y los samnitas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ガウルス山の戦いがローマ人とサムニウム人の間で戦われる。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page