Battle of Valentia (75 BC)

Battle of Valentia
	Part of the Sertorian War
Date	75 BC
Location	Valentia in Spain39°28′00″N 0°22′30″W / 39.46667°N 0.37500°W
Result	Roman victory
Belligerents
Roman Republic	Sertorian Rebels
Commanders and leaders
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (better known as Pompey)	Marcus Perpenna; Gaius Herennius;
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
	class=notpageimage\| 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.

[PJP-1] Plutarch, Life of Pompey, 18; John Leach, Pompey the Great, p. 48; Philip Matyszak, Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain, pp 117-118.

[2] 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.

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