| Battle of Valentia | |||||||
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| Part of the Sertorian War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Roman Republic | Sertorian Rebels | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (better known as Pompey) | |||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 6 understrength legions and an unknown number of auxiliaries and allied troops | unknown but probably similar to Pompey's army | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| unknown but a lot lighter than their opponents | 10,000[1] | ||||||
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Spain_location_map_with_provinces.svg)  Location within Spain | |||||||
The Battle of Valentia was fought in 75 BC between a rebel army under the command of Marcus Perpenna Vento and a general called Gaius Herennius, both legates of the Roman rebel Quintus Sertorius, and a Roman Republican army under the command of the Roman general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (better known as Pompey the Great). The battle was fought at Valentia in Spain and ended in a stunning victory for the Pompeian army.[1][2]
- ^ a b Plutarch, Life of Pompey, 18; John Leach, Pompey the Great, p. 48; Philip Matyszak, Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain, pp 117-118.
- ^ Much of what we know of this battle comes from a single sentence from Plutarch's Life of Pompey: Near Valentia he [Pompey] crushed the generals Herennius and Perpenna, men of military experience among the refugees with Sertorius, and slew more than ten thousand of their men. Plutarch, Life of Pompey, 18.