Regional321 BCE

Battle of Caudine Forks

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Italy

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Caudine Forks (321 BCE), part of the 2nd Samnite War. Samnites defeated Rome.

Belligerents2

Samnites
Rome

Conflict graph

PART OFSecond Samnite War

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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