Battle of Decimomannu

Battle of Decimomannu
Part of the Second Punic War

Map of the campaign
DateFall 215 BC
Location40°05′36″N 8°30′29″E / 40.09333°N 8.50806°E / 40.09333; 8.50806
Result Roman victory
  • Sack of Cornus
Belligerents
Roman Republic Carthage
Nuragic Sardinians
Commanders and leaders
Titus Manlius Torquatus Hasdrubal the Bald (POW)
Hampsicora 
Strength
22,000 infantry
1,200 cavalry
15,000 infantry
1,500 cavalry + Sardinians (?) + Elephants (?)
Casualties and losses
unknown 13,500 casualties; 12,000 killed and 1,500 captured.[1]

The Battle of Decimomannu[2] or Battle of Caralis was fought 215 BC on the island of Sardinia when a Carthaginian army sailed to the island to support a local revolt against Roman rule. The army, led by Hasdrubal the Bald, fought a similar size Roman army under the praetor Titus Manlius Torquatus in the Fall of 215 BC somewhere between Sestu and Decimomannu,[2] just north of Caralis. The Romans destroyed the Carthaginian army and then scattered their fleet in a sea battle south of Sardinia.

  1. ^ Beyer, Brian (2009). War with Hannibal (1st ed.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-300-13918-1.
  2. ^ a b Casula 1994, p. 104.