The History of Rome - Table of Contents Pyrrhus Bust

pyrrhus.gif Pyrrhus was the king of Epirus and was the first Greek (Hellenic) general to face the Romans. In 280 BC he came to aid the Greeks in Italy (Tarentum) and brought with him his fearful elephant cavalry along with 20,000 soldiers and barely won a brutal victory. His Phalanx defeated the Rome's legionary armies twice. His army was soon too diminished to continue and he left Rome in 275 BC leaving Rome as the undisputed champion of central and southern Italy.

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The History of Rome - Part One 743 - 136 B.C.

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