Military history of Rome

This is an tentative list of topics regarding Military History of Rome

Table of contents

1 List of Roman battles 2 List of Roman Military Terms 3 Roman Civil Wars and Rebellions 4 List of Roman Wars 5 Roman generals 6 Famous enemies of Rome 7 Roman Army 8 Miscellaneous

List of Roman battles

List of Roman Military Terms

Roman Civil Wars and Rebellions

• Batavian rebellion (70 AD)
• Nika riots (ca. 532 AD)
• Roman Republican civil wars - several
• Social War (91/88 BC)
• Spartacus slave rebellion (79 BC)
• Year of the four emperors (69 AD)

List of Roman Wars

• Gallic Wars
• Lusitanian War (155 BC - ca. 139 BC)
• Jugurthine War
• Macedonian wars
  • First Macedonian War
  • Second Macedonian War
  • Third Macedonian War
  • Fourth Macedonian War
• Mithridatic wars
  • First Mithridatic War
  • Second Mithridatic War
  • Third Mithridatic War
• Punic wars – against Carthage
  • First Punic War
  • Second Punic War
  • Third Punic War
• Roman invasion of Britain
• Samnite wars 327 - 290 BC

Roman generals

• Gnaeus Julius Agricola - conquered Scotland
• Julius Caesar
• Quintus Petillius Cerialis - defeated Boudicca and ended the Batavian rebellion
• Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo - in Asia
• Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus - acquired Macedonia
• Lucius Cornelius Sulla - in the Mithridatic and Samnite Wars
• Gaius Marius - against the Germanic tribes
• Pompey the Great - several campaigns
• Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus - Second Punic War
• Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, the Cunctator - First Punic War
• Quintus Sertorius
• Scipio Aemilianus - Third Punic War
• Suetonius Paullinus - in Roman Britain

Famous enemies of Rome

This is a list of foreign persons that led important wars or rebellions against Rome

• Alaric
• Arminius
• Attila the Hun
• Boudicca
• Julius Civilis
• Confederations of Germanic Tribes
• Hannibal of the Second Punic War
• Mithridates VI of Pontus
• Shapur I of Persia
• Simon bar Kokhba
• Vercingetorix
• Viriathus of the Lusitanian War
• Zenobia

Roman Army

• Legionary
• lorica segmentata
• Praetorian Guard
• Roman legion
  • List of Roman legions
• Roman triumph
• siege engine
• trireme
• Weapons
  • Corvus
  • Gladius
  • Onager
  • Pilum
  • Spatha

Miscellaneous

• Principal passes of the Alps

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History - Ancient History - Ancient Rome - Military History of Rome

See also: Military History