Roman retreat

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Often appears with: battle and tactics · supply, logistics, and encampment · strategy and the aims of war · siege and fortification · persian cavalry · nola · naval warfare and sea power · maronga skirmish · hannibal moves camp · elephants in battle · caius claudius nero

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The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 secondary

Titus Livius (Livy) · c. 27 BCE–17 CE (for Ab urbe condita; individual books composed within this span)
BOOK IX. > BOOK XXIV. (18/48)

While Gracchus’ battle outcomes unfold at Beneventum, Hannibal moves to Nola; Marcellus’ cavalry circuit under Caius Claudius Nero fails to arrive in time, contributing to a Roman retreat as Hannibal goes to Tarentum.

to be executed in the temple of Liberty, which his father caused to be built on the Aventine out of money arising from fines, and which his father also dedicated. 17. While these events occurred at Beneventum, Hannibal having laid waste the territory of Naples, moved his camp to Nola. The consul, as soon as he was aware of his approach, sent for Pemponius the propraetor, with the troops he had in the camp above Sues…

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 secondary

Edward Gibbon · Written 1782; revised 1845 (for the later edition context of the modern title page)
Chapter XVI: Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To (6/11)

As Julian’s army advances toward the Tigris, Persian cavalry harass and eventually surround the Romans; despite fighting at Maronga with elephants and heavy losses, the Romans are slowed by heat and time, while supplies dwindle under retreat.

134, p. 357,) and Zosimus, (l. iii. p. 183.) The two last seem ignorant that their conqueror was retreating; and Libanius absurdly confines him to the banks of the Tigris.] As long as the Romans seemed to advance into the country, their march was observed and insulted from a distance, by several bodies of Persian cavalry; who, showing themselves sometimes in loose, and sometimes in close order, fai…