For other uses, see Battle of Vesuvius and Battle of Mons Lactarius.
Battle of Mount Vesuvius
Part of the Third Servile War
The Gladiator Mosaic at the Galleria Borghese
Date
73 BC
Location
Mount Vesuvius, Italy
Result
Rebel victory
Start of the Third Servile War.
Belligerents
Roman Republic
Rebel Army
Commanders and leaders
Gaius Claudius Glaber
Spartacus
Strength
3,000 militia
70-100 Gladiators[1]
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73 BC
Mount Vesuvius
72 BC
Lentula
Gargano [it]
Picenum
Mutina
71 BC
Cantenna
Campania
2nd Campania
Silarius River
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The Battle of Vesuvius was the first conflict of the Third Servile War which pitted the escaped slaves against a military force of militia specifically dispatched by Rome to deal with the rebellion.
When the militia, led by the Roman Praetor Gaius Claudius Glaber, besieged the group of escaped slaves on Mount Vesuvius, Spartacus's men adopted unusual tactics, rappelling down the steeper cliff face opposite the Roman forces, flanking and defeating them.
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