011 Pyrrhus Beneventum v1 - Punic Wars
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| First Side: | Italian States |
| Second Side: | Roman |
Maleventum 275 BC - Pyrrhus hastens to attack Consul Manius Curius' army at Maleventum - subsequently renamed, more propitiously, Beneventum - before the other consular army can arrive. Advancing, by night, towards the Roman camp through wooded country, Pyrrhus' troops lose their way. At day-break, his army is detected coming down from the hills by the Romans. Manius draws up his army and attacks Pyrrhus' vanguard ... (See Plutarch's Life of Pyrrhus) (48 turns, 20,000 pts a side)
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