Andrew Garaventa

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Overall, the rebels had as much reason to feel pleased with themselves as the Romans had to be worried. In the field the Italians had shown that they were more than a match for Rome’s supposedly invincible armies. The Italians had made territorial gains in southern Campania while bloodying Roman noses when they attempted to poke them into Marsic territory or around Asculum. One way or another, a number of Roman and Latin settlements had fallen into Italian hands while the Italians had not lost a single settlement of any significance.
Cataclysm 90 BC: The Forgotten War that Almost Destroyed Rome
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