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Often appears with: conquest, plunder, and captives · battle and tactics · siege and fortification · military discipline and training · utica campaign diversion · trenches and palisades · treaty under the yoke · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · syphax’s camp destroyed · suthul siege · strategy and the aims of war · signal shout
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Scipio plans a night attack: he orders Laelius and Masinissa to burn Syphax’s camp while he strikes Hasdrubal’s camp after seeing the signal fire, resulting in widespread confusion and deadly flight among Carthaginians and Numidians.
attack which might be made from the city upon his camp, which would be left with a slight force to protect it, while he himself went against Syphax and Hasdrubal. 5. Having made these preparations, he called a council and after ordering the spies to give an account of the discoveries they had made, and requesting Masinissa, who was acquainted with every circumstance relating to the enemy, to state what he knew, last…
After Jugurtha renews war, Aulus’s campaign around Suthul fails when Jugurtha’s night attack and bribed defections force an ignominious treaty under the yoke.
treachery. However this might be, Albinus, when time passed on, and the day of the comitia approached, left his brother Aulus in the camp as propraetor[131], and returned to Rome. XXXVII. The republic, at this time, was grievously distracted by the contentions of the tribunes. Two of them, Publius Lucullus and Lucius Annius, were struggling against the will of their colleagues, to prolong their term of office; and t…
While part of the Gauls besiege the Capitol, the rest forage near the city of Ardea where Camillus is staying; he rallies the Ardeatians and attacks the drunken Gauls at night, winning a victory.
from their defenses. This provoked them to ruin the whole city, and to put to the sword all that came to their hands, young and old, men, women, and children. And now, the siege of the Capitol having lasted a good while, the Gauls began to be in want of provision; and dividing their forces, part of them stayed with their king at the siege, the rest went to forage the country, ravaging the towns and villages where th…
Antiochus authorizes Lagoras’ attack; they choose a moonless pre-dawn night, send ladder-men and reserves, and disguise the operation by pretending the Aetolians will enter through a gully.
the spot and carefully examined the possibilities of approaching it and setting ladders; and finding that this was possible at one particular rock, he communicated the facts to the king. +16.+ Antiochus encouraged the attempt and urged Lagoras to carry it out. The latter promised to do his best, and desired the king to join with him Theodotus the Aetolian, and Dionysius the commander of his bodyguard, with orders to…
Scipio leads an overnight attack: he sends Gaius Laelius and Massanissa against Syphax’s camp while he strikes Hasdrubal’s camp, using fire to exploit tightly built huts and kill or capture sleeping Numidians.
[Sidenote: Destruction of the camp of Syphax by C. Laelius and Massanissa, and of Hasdrubal.] +4.+ Everything being prepared for his expedition, Scipio left a sufficiently strong guard in the camp, and got the rest of the men on the march towards the end of the first watch, the enemy being about sixty stades distant. Arrived in the neighbourhood of the enemy, about the end of the third watch, he assigned to Gaius La…
At Algidum the dictator’s night maneuver surrounds the enemy camp with trenches and palisades, coordinates shouts with the consul’s forces, and fights continues until daylight.
to please their leaders, exclaimed among themselves: "Standard-bearer, hasten; follow, soldier." At midnight they reached Algidum: and, as soon as they perceived that they were near the enemy, they halted. There the dictator, riding about, and having observe as far as could be ascertained by night, what the extent of the camp was, and what was its nature, commanded the tribunes of the soldiers to order the baggage t…
Anileus, marching to attack Mithridates, suffers defeat after exhausting himself and thirst while Mithridates attacks, then ravages Babylonians, who secretly kill Anileus while he sleeps drunk and kill his whole party.
a thing not to be borne any longer, that he, a Parthian, should owe his preservation to the Jews, when they had been too hard for him in the war. 7. But as soon as Anileus understood that Mithridates was marching with a great army against him, he thought it too ignominious a thing to tarry about the lakes, and not to take the first opportunity of meeting his enemies, and he hoped to have the same success, and to bea…