Battle in 280 BC between the Romans and Greeks commanded by Pyrrhus
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Battle of Heraclea
Part of the Pyrrhic War
Battle sites and places of the Pyrrhic War
Date
July 280 BC
Location
Heraclea, Basilicata, southern Italy
Result
Greek victory[1]
Belligerents
Epirus Magna Graecia
Roman Republic
Commanders and leaders
Pyrrhus
Publius Valerius Laevinus
Strength
35,500 men
20,000 phalangites
6,000 levy hoplites
3,000 hypaspists
2,000 archers
500 slingers
4,000 cavalry
20 war elephants
45,000 men
20,000 Roman heavy infantry
16,800 Allied heavy infantry
2,400 Allied light infantry
2,400-6000 cavalry[2]
Casualties and losses
4,000–11,000 killed
7,000–15,000 killed 1,800 captured
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Pyrrhic War
Heraclea
Asculum
Venusia
Rhegium
Syracuse
Eryx
Cranita
Lilybaeum
Messina
Beneventum
The Battle of Heraclea took place in 280 BC between the Romans under the command of consul Publius Valerius Laevinus, and the combined forces of Greeks from Epirus, Tarentum, Thurii, Metapontum, and Heraclea under the command of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus. Although the battle was a victory for the Greeks and their casualties were lower than the Romans, they had lost many veteran soldiers that would be hard to replace on foreign soil.[3]
^Nicholas Hammond, Epirus: The Geography, the Ancient Remains, the History and Topography, Clarendon P., 1967
^"Heraclea".
^Legion Versus Phalanx, Myke Cole
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