The Roman defeat at Burdigala persuaded several Gallic tribes to join forces with the Germans and rebel against Roman rule. 100,000200,000 (the warriors of the entire tribal coalition) The Battle against the Ambrones c.
Ranged against the migratory tribes of the Cimbri under Boiorix and the Teutoni under Teutobod were two Roman armies, commanded by the proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio and consul Gnaeus Mallius Maximus. The remaining Romans under Gaius Popillius Laenas surrendered to the Germans and were allowed to retire from the field "under the yoke" after giving most of their supplies to the barbarians. The Battle of Arausio took place on 6 October 105 BC, at a site between the town of Arausio (now Orange, Vaucluse), and the Rhône River. The Roman general Lucius Cassius Longinus made a defensive camp on a hilltop bear Burdigala and decided to attack the town, but he neglected to send out scouts, and the combined tribes ambushed him and killed him and 10,000 of his men. The Germans then fortified the town of Burdigala and reinforced their army. The Germans were defeated outside of Tolosa (Toulouse), and they abandoned their baggage train, which slowed the Roman advance. The Roman commander Quintus Lutatius Catulus had the. In 107 BC, a Roman army of 40,000 troops was sent by the Roman Senate to defend the Gauls against the Germans. During the Republic, Rome suffered some pretty ignoble losses, too: if the accounts of the historian Livy are to be believed, the battle of Arausio in 105 BC saw 80,000 soldiers and 40,000 servants perish, while at the earlier battle of Cannae in 216 BC, the Carthaginians under Hannibal routed around 50,000 Romans. They had defeated the Romans in several battles, such as the Battle at Noreia (and the battle of Arausio (. Both began as relatively minor issues, a domestic dispute in Africa and a migrating tribe in Gaul, but. In 109 BC, peace talks with Rome fell through, and the Germans defeated another Roman army and invaded Gallia Narbonensis. In many ways, these conflicts reflect the Jugurthine War. A Germanic army led by the Helvetii king Divico defeated a 40,000-strong Roman army sent to stop the Cimbri-led invasion of Gallia Narbonensis in the second crushing Roman defeat of the war.įollowing the Battle of Noreia in 113 BC, the Cimbri and Teutons migrated from Noricum into Raetia, where they were joined by the Tigurini they then invaded Gaul and ravaged the countryside. The Battle of Burdigala was fought in 107 BC near present-day Bordeaux, France during the Cimbrian War.
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