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The defeat of Rome Crassus, Carrhae and the invasion of the East

By Licinius Crassus Dives , Marcus;Sampson , Gareth C

Book information

Publisher
Pen & Sword Military
Year
2008
ISBN
9781844156764, 9781844686346, 9781844686353, 1844156761
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4155538 bytes)
Pages
1 vol. (VI-224 p.-[8] p. de pl.) : ill., cartes. ;
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Histoire militaire--Rome--264-30 av. J.-C;BiographMarcus -- (0115-0053 av. J.-C.) -- Leadership mili

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During the last stages of the Republic, Rome suffered its greatest military disaster since Hannibal’s invasion of Italy over 150 years earlier, though this defeat had more far-reaching consequences. While Rome was able to recover from its disaster at Cannae, it never did retrieve the results of Carrhae, a defeat that sealed the East as an impenetrable barrier to Roman ambition, and also signaled the demise of the Republic.In 53 BC, Marcus Crassus, the richest member of Rome’s ruling Triumverate, which also included Caesar and Pompey, decided to enhance his military stature with an invasion of the Parthian Empire centered on Mesopotamia (today’s Iraq). His 36,000 legionaries crossed the Euphrates and were met by a much smaller Parthian army, albeit one mounted on horseback in the dispersed, missile-firing steppe-war tradition.In the desolate territory around Carrhae the Roman legions were surrounded and beset by elusive horse warriors, who alternated...

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