Battle of Camerinum

Battle of Camerinum
	Part of the Third Samnite War
Date	298 BC
Location	Camerinum (modern Camerino), Italy
Result	Samnite victory
Belligerents
Roman Republic	Samnium
Commanders and leaders
Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus	Gellius Equatius

The Battle of Camerinum in 298 BC was the first battle of the Third Samnite War. In the battle, the Samnites, assisted by the Gauls, defeated the Romans, who were commanded by Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus.[1] Scipio was supposed to have stopped the Gauls from crossing a mountain pass in the Apennines, but failed, and the combined force of Samnites and Gauls defeated Scipio's two legions.[2]

References

Gill, N.S. "A Table of Roman Battles". Retrieved 31 July 2012.
Harbottle, Thomas Benfield (1904). Dictionary of battles from the earliest date to the present time. London: S. Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd. pp. 47. Camerinum.

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[1] Gill, N.S. "A Table of Roman Battles". Retrieved 31 July 2012.

[2] Harbottle, Thomas Benfield (1904). Dictionary of battles from the earliest date to the present time. London: S. Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd. pp. 47. Camerinum.