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274 BC.
274 BC
The first major battle in the Domino wars, was the battle near Vesontio. Both armies had nearly thirty thousands warriors. The Sequani alliance managed to repel the army of the Aedui alliance. The battle was a bloodbath, the Aedui alliance lost fifteen thousand man and the Sequani alliance nearly thirteen thousands. The losses of Massaliot league were rather small(two thousands mostly in the ranks of the Volcae Gauls). In the war for Corbilo, the Pictones tribe won the battle against the Venetii and continued the siege.
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The first major battle in the Domino wars, was the battle near Vesontio. Both armies had nearly thirty thousands warriors. The Sequani alliance managed to repel the army of the Aedui alliance. The battle was a bloodbath, the Aedui alliance lost fifteen thousand man and the Sequani alliance nearly thirteen thousands. The losses of Massaliot league were rather small(two thousands mostly in the ranks of the Volcae Gauls). In the war for Corbilo, the Pictones tribe won the battle against the Venetii and continued the siege.
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Greece
- Pyrrhus returns from Italy and Sicily and invades Macedonia defeating Antigonus II Gonatas at the Battle of the Aous and conquering Upper Macedonia and Thessaly while Antigonus holds onto the coastal Macedonian towns. Antigonus' troops desert him and Pyrrhus is declared King of Macedonia.
- The Romans under Manius Curius Dentatus conquer the Lucanians.
- Magas of Cyrene marries Apama, the daughter of Antiochus and uses his marital alliance to foment a pact to invade Egypt. He opens hostilities against his half brother Ptolemy II, by declaring his province of Cyrenaica to be independent and then attacks Egypt from the west as Antiochus I takes the Egyptian controlled areas in coastal Syria and southern Anatolia, after which he attacks Palestine.
- Magas has to stop his advance against Ptolemy II due to an internal revolt by the Libyan Marmaridae nomads.
- Sersor
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