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Aquae Sextiae, Battle of

Years: 102BCE - 102BCE

The Battle of Aquae Sextiae (Aix-en-Provence) takes place in 102 BCE.

After a string of Roman defeats, the Romans under Gaius Marius finally defea the Teutones and Ambrones.

The Teutons and the Ambrones are virtually wiped out, with the Romans claiming to have killed 90,000 and captured 20,000, including large numbers of women and children.

Some of the surviving captives are reported to have been among the rebelling Gladiators in the Third Servile War.

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

― Aldous Huxley, in Collected Essays (1959)