| Battle of Placentia | |||||||
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| Part of the Second Punic War | |||||||
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Shepherd_Map_Regio_Aemilia_(1911).jpg) Territories of Cisalpine Gaul, where the clashes took place near Placentia (top left) | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Vexilloid_of_the_Roman_Empire.svg){kind=small} Roman Republic |
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Carthage_standard.svg){kind=small} Carthage | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Tiberius |
Hannibal | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown, a few thousand |
12,000 infantry 5,000 cavalry[1] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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600 infantry 300 cavalry[2] |
600 infantry 300 cavalry[3] | ||||||
The Battle of Placentia which took place in January of 217 BC during the Second Punic War, represented a double clash of secondary importance, engaged between the army of the consul Tiberius Sempronius Longus and the Carthagese army of Hannibal, after the latter's victories at the Ticinus[4][5][6] and at the Trebbia (end of 218 BC).[7][8][9]