Battle of Ager Falernus

Saguntum - Lilybaeum II - Rhone - Ticinus - Trebia - Cissa - Lake Trasimeno - Ager Falernus - Geronium - Cannae - I Nola - Nola II - Ibera - Cornus - Nola III - Beneventum I - Syracuse - Tarentum I - Capua I - Beneventum II - Silarus - Herdonia I - Upper Baetis - Capua II - Herdonia II - Numistro - Asculum - Tarentum II - New Carthage - Baecula - Grumentum - Metaurus - Ilipa - Crotona - Large fields - Cirta - Zama

The Battle of Ager Falernus was a battle between Rome and Carthage in the Second Punic War.

Prehistory

After the Battle of Lake Trasimeno arose in Rome riots, and in this exceptional situation, Quintus Fabius Maximus, the people elected Verrucosus dictator because it seemed necessary to stabilize the situation. He wanted the Roman citizens also equal to prove that he could cope with Hannibal. This had come dangerously close after the crushing defeats of the Roman legions of the capital on the Tiber, and encamped in Campania.

The Battle

Quintus Fabius Maximus marched with his army, which consisted of a total of 4,000 soldiers, from Rome to the south. By scouts he learned that his Carthaginian counterparty with less than a thousand foot soldiers encamped in Campania on the river Ager Falernus. What he did not know was that Hannibal with the main part of the army encamped a little further east to supplies procurement. When the Romans in 217 BC on a summer night with the certainty of being in the superior power, attacked the Carthaginians interfering in the east were alerted. Hannibal was now encircled between the army and the river the Romans.

After a brief skirmish took the Romans to flight, and the battle was won for the Carthaginians.

Follow

The Battle of Ager Falernus was numerically less bad for the Romans, but the defeat demoralized the Roman troops. So far, a significant victory against the Carthaginians had hardly been fought. The disaster resulted in the Battle of Cannae.