id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2740 List of Roman wars and battles - Wikipedia .html text/html 6276 686 65 297 BC – Battle of Tifernum – Romans under Quintus Fabius Maximus and Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus defeat the Samnite army led by Gellius Statius Battle of Cannae – Hannibal destroys the main Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paulus and Publius Terentius Varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art. 202 BC, 19 October – Battle of Zama – Scipio Africanus Major decisively defeats Hannibal in North Africa, ending the Second Punic War. December, Battle of Magnesia – (near Smyrna) Romans under Lucius Cornelius Scipio and his brother Scipio Africanus Major defeat Antiochus III the Great in the decisive victory of the war. 86 BC – Battle of Chaeronea – Roman forces of Lucius Cornelius Sulla defeat the Pontic forces of Archelaus in the First Mithridatic War Civil War – 366 – Battle of Thyatira – The army of the Roman emperor Valens defeats the usurper Procopius. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2740.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2740.txt