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236 BC. The end of the Gallic wars. Gaul and world map.
236 BC
Nemossos was an oppidum (fortified settlement) on a lofty hill fort and with two rivers on two different sides. Due to such strong defensive features, Hermolaos decided on a siege to force surrender by starvation. Considering that about fifteen thousands men were garrisoned in Nemossos, together with the local civilian population, this would not have taken long. After a while, the relief Gaul force of eighty thousands, arrived and encamped on a hill one mile from the Massaliot League fortification. Some of the chiefs of the Gauls suggested to not meet the Greeks in the open field but King Diviciacix sure of his army strength and numbers refuse.
Hermolaos made the Gauls fight him on open ground, which allowed him to maximise the effect of the Mounted archers/cavalry.Together with his prudent and unabashed use of fixed projectile weapons like the polybolos and light ballista, archers and crossbows took a heavy toll on the densely packed Gauls. The battle was a triumph for Massaliot league forces. Nearly forty thousands Gauls died and another ten thousands sold as slaves. Hermolaos forces had around ten thousands dead and wounded.
The battle/siege of Nemessos proved to be the end of generalized and organized resistance against Massaliot League invasion of Gaul and effectively marked the end of the Gallic Wars. After several months of small battles and sieges Averni lands were now part of the Massaliot League, Sequani and Aedui tribes were now vassals of Massaliot league and Pictones/Santones conquered the Bituriges lands. Carnutes and Senones tribes paid a heavy tribute.
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Ptolemaic Egypt.
Seleucid Empire
Nemossos was an oppidum (fortified settlement) on a lofty hill fort and with two rivers on two different sides. Due to such strong defensive features, Hermolaos decided on a siege to force surrender by starvation. Considering that about fifteen thousands men were garrisoned in Nemossos, together with the local civilian population, this would not have taken long. After a while, the relief Gaul force of eighty thousands, arrived and encamped on a hill one mile from the Massaliot League fortification. Some of the chiefs of the Gauls suggested to not meet the Greeks in the open field but King Diviciacix sure of his army strength and numbers refuse.
Hermolaos made the Gauls fight him on open ground, which allowed him to maximise the effect of the Mounted archers/cavalry.Together with his prudent and unabashed use of fixed projectile weapons like the polybolos and light ballista, archers and crossbows took a heavy toll on the densely packed Gauls. The battle was a triumph for Massaliot league forces. Nearly forty thousands Gauls died and another ten thousands sold as slaves. Hermolaos forces had around ten thousands dead and wounded.
The battle/siege of Nemessos proved to be the end of generalized and organized resistance against Massaliot League invasion of Gaul and effectively marked the end of the Gallic Wars. After several months of small battles and sieges Averni lands were now part of the Massaliot League, Sequani and Aedui tribes were now vassals of Massaliot league and Pictones/Santones conquered the Bituriges lands. Carnutes and Senones tribes paid a heavy tribute.
- The gold mines of Averni lands and the domination in trade to almost all Gaul boosts the economy of Massalia even further.
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Ptolemaic Egypt.
- Ptolemy III reconquers Syria from Antiochus II. While was getting ready for an expedition in Mesopotamia, Ptolemy II dies and that forced Ptolemy III to return in Egypt thus ending the Ptolemaic-Seleucid war in the current status quo.
- The Decree of Canopus, also called "Table of Tanis", is a memorial stone promulgated by an assemblage of priests in honour ofPtolemy III Euergetes and his consort Berenice. The decree, written in Greek, demotic, and hieroglyphs is an ancient bilingualEgyptian decree that provides a key for deciphering hieroglyphic and the simpler demotic script
- Arsaces, chief of an Iranian nomad tribe, the Parni, invades and conquers Parthia from the Greco-Bactrian kingdom
Seleucid Empire
- Antiochus II son Antiochus Hierax, who is governor of Seleucid Anatolia, sends an army into Syria ostensibly to assist Seleucus but actually to seize the rest of the empire. After achieving peace with Egypt, Antiochus II promptly invades Anatolia and begins the "War of father and son".
- Sersor
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