Battle of Mount Gaurus

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Battle of Mont Gaurus
Part of The First Samnite War
Date c. 342 BC Location Monte Barbaro, near Cumae, Italy Result Roman victory
Combatants
Roman Republic	Samnium
Commanders
Valerius Corvus

Samnite Wars
Mons Gaurus - Suessola - Caudine Forks – Lautulae – Bovianum Camerinum - Sentinum - Aquilonia

The Battle of Mount Gaurus was a battle between the ancient Romans and the Samnites in 342 BC. The battle was a success for the Romans, who were led by Marcus Valerius Corvus. Fought at the foot of Mount Gaurus, near Cumae, it was the most notable engagement of the First Samnite War (343 BC - 341 BC).

It is believed that Carthage, an ally of Rome at the time, congratulated the victors and sent them a golden crown for the Temple of Jupiter.

The historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr considered the Battle of Mount Gaurus to be very important in the growth of the Roman Republic.

[edit] See also

• List of Roman battles

[edit] External link

• The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic, Chapter VIII