Talk:Battle of Vercellae

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[edit] The Vercellae article

Currently Vercellae redirects here, which is easily explained—it used to be an article on the battle—, but seems a little odd. Unless and until someone starts an article on the Roman town, it strikes me that it would be better as a disambiguation page, or as a redirect to Vercelli. (That article has no coverage of the town’s ancient history at the moment.) Any thoughts? —Ian Spackman 21:40, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Number of barbarians involved in the battle

Roman history is plagued by fantastic exaggerations when describing the number of enemies (heroically defeated). More recent research has tended to reduce these claimed numbers very significantly - often/generally by at least an order of magnitude. Please see my longer posting in the article on the battle of Aquae Sextae. HagenFranziska 15:44, 30 September 2007 (UTC)