Battle of Placentia (217 BC)

Battle of Placentia
Part of the Second Punic War

Territories of Cisalpine Gaul, where the clashes took place near Placentia (top left)
Date217 BC
Location
Piacenza, Italy
Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
Roman Republic Carthage
Commanders and leaders
Tiberius Hannibal
Strength
Unknown, a few thousand 12,000 infantry
5,000 cavalry[1]
Casualties and losses
600 infantry
300 cavalry[2]		 600 infantry
300 cavalry[3]

The Battle of Placentia which took place in January of 217 BC during the Second Punic War, represented a double clash of secondary importance, engaged between the army of the consul Tiberius Sempronius Longus and the Carthagese army of Hannibal, after the latter's victories at the Ticinus[4][5][6] and at the Trebbia (end of 218 BC).[7][8][9]

  1. ^ Livio XXI 59,1.
  2. ^ Livio XXI, 59.8
  3. ^ Livio XXI, 59.8
  4. ^ Livy XXI, 45-46
  5. ^ Eutropius III, 9
  6. ^ Polybius III, 65.
  7. ^ Livy XXI, 54-56
  8. ^ Polybius III, 71-74
  9. ^ Mommsen 2001 vol. I, volume 2, p. 732