Marcus Livius Gaius Claudius Nero Lucius Porcius Licinus
Hasdrubal Barca †
Strength
37,000 men
30,000 men 10 elephants
Casualties and losses
2,000–8,000 killed
10,000 men killed 5,400 men captured 6 elephants killed 4 elephants captured
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Location within Italy
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Second Punic War
Prelude
Saguntum
Rhone
Crossing of the Alps
Italy
Ticinus
Trebia
Mutina
Placentia
Victumulae
Lake Trasimene
Umbrian Lake
Crossing of the Apennines
Ager Falernus
Geronium
Cannae
Silva Litana
1st Nola
Nuceria Alfaterna
1st Casilinum
Hamae
1st Petelia
Cumae
2nd Nola
1st Beneventum
3rd Nola
2nd Casilinum
Lucania
Arpi
1st Tarentum
2nd Beneventum
Campi Veteres
1st Capua
Silarus
1st Herdonia
2nd Capua
Rome
Sapriportis
2nd Herdonia
Numistro
Canusium
Manduria
Caulonia
2nd Tarentum
Locri
2nd Petelia
Venusia
Grumentum
Metaurus
Crotona
Insubria
Iberia
Cissa
Ebro River
Ibera
Illiturgis
Munda
Orongi
Upper Baetis
1st New Carthage
Baria
Baecula
Ilipa
Sucro
1st Carteia
2nd Carteia
2nd New Carthage
Sicily and Sardinia
Lilybaeum
Malta
Decimomannu
Leontini
Syracuse
Himera
Agrigentum
North Africa
1st Utica
2nd Utica
Great Plains
Cirta
Zama
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Punic Wars
First
Mercenary
Second
Third
The Battle of the Metaurus was a pivotal battle in the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, fought in 207 BC near the Metauro River in Italy. The Carthaginians were led by Hasdrubal Barca, brother of Hannibal, who was to have brought siege equipment[citation needed] and reinforcements for Hannibal. The Roman armies were led by the consuls Marcus Livius, who was later nicknamed the Salinator, and Gaius Claudius Nero.
Claudius Nero had just fought Hannibal in Grumentum, some hundreds of kilometres south of the Metaurus river, and reached Marcus Livius by a forced march that went unnoticed by both Hannibal and Hasdrubal, so that the Carthaginians suddenly found themselves outnumbered. In the battle, the Romans used their numerical superiority to outflank the Carthaginian army and rout them, the Carthaginians losing 15,400 men killed or captured, including Hasdrubal.
The battle confirmed Roman supremacy over Italy. Without Hasdrubal's army to support him, Hannibal was compelled to evacuate pro-Carthaginian towns in much of southern Italy in the face of Roman pressure and withdraw to Bruttium, where he would remain for the next four years.
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