Battle of Beneventum (214 BC)

Battle of Beneventum
Part of the Second Punic War

Plan of the Battle of Beneventum (214 BC)
Date214 BC
Location
Beneventum; modern Benevento
41°08′00″N 14°47′00″E / 41.1333°N 14.7833°E / 41.1333; 14.7833
Result Roman victory
Belligerents
Roman Republic Carthage
Commanders and leaders
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus Hanno
Strength
18,000 infantry and cavalry

18,200


17,000 infantry
1,200 Numidian cavalry
Casualties and losses
2,000 killed 16,200 killed

The Battle of Beneventum was fought in 214 BC near modern Benevento during the Second Punic War. Roman legions under Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus defeated Hanno's Carthaginian forces, denying Hannibal reinforcements. Livy gives a brief description of the battle,[1] which was part of the Roman campaign to subdue the southern Italian city-states that had joined Hannibal after the Battle of Cannae.

  1. ^ Livy 24.14-16.