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Battle of Mount Vesuvius
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| Battle of Mount Vesuvius | |||||||
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| Part of the Third Servile War | |||||||
 The Gladiator Mosaic at the Galleria Borghese | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Roman Republic | Rebel Army | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Gaius Claudius Glaber † | Spartacus | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 3,000 militia | 70–100 Gladiators[1] | ||||||
The Battle of Vesuvius was the first conflict of the Third Servile War which pitted the escaped slaves against a military force of militia specifically dispatched by Rome to deal with the rebellion.
When the militia, led by the Roman Praetor Gaius Claudius Glaber, besieged the group of escaped slaves on Mount Vesuvius, Spartacus's men adopted unusual tactics, rappelling down the steeper cliff face opposite the Roman forces, flanking and defeating them.
- ^ Синезий. De regno. 20
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