Transcript Roman Military Leaders

Military Leaders
By: Vincent Redko
P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus
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Conquered territories
in Spain (210-205 BC).
Conquered Sicily
(211BC).
Defeated Carthaginians
at Zama (202 BC).
(Picture to right:
Carthage purple, Rome
red.)
Gaius Julius Caesar
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Conquered Gaul (from
modern French-Riviera
to Normandy) 58-50
BC.
Crossed the English
Channel and
successfully invaded
England (55 BC).
Hannibal Barca
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Sieges Saguntum (Roman ally) provoking 2nd Punic War.
Successfully crosses Alps and invades Italy; Long winding
campaign includes battles of Cannae (216 BC) and Tarentum.
Geiseric
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Invaded Africa from Spain and captured Carthage in
439 A.D.
Invaded Italy and Sacked Rome in 455 A.D.
M.Vipsanius Agrippa
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Defeated Marc Antony
at Actium (31BC),
securing power over
Roman world for
Octavian
Aetius
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Repulsed Attila and the
Huns in 451 AD at
Battle of the Catalonian
Fields.
Believed to have saved
Western Rome.
Trajan
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Invaded Dacia
(Northern Balkans) in
101 AD.
Expanded empire to it’s
largest form.
Lucius Domitius Aurelianus
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Defeated the Jutes after
their invasion of
Northern Italy in 270
AD.
Repulsed barbarian
invasion of the Vandals
and Sarmatians in 271
AD.