Three films on the campaigns

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12 episodes indexed · 7 hours · HistoryMarche

Periods · The kings, The Republic, The late Republic, The Pax Romana, The third-century crisis, Christian Rome, The fall of the west

Themes · Battle The army Power struggle

Campaign narration with animated maps, and the three indexed here are all military: Hannibal in 212 BC and Rome's answer to him. The subject is the movement of armies, hour by hour and hill by hill.

Where to start. Hannibal 212 BC.

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Carthage and the Punic Wars 814 – 146 BC · 2

24mRome's Strategic Masterstroke: The Divided Retreat That Fooled Hannibal, 212 BC (Part 23) HistoryMarcheYouTube

Part twenty-three of an animated march through the Second Punic War, on the year Hannibal broke camp at Capua and rode for Rome to pull the siege off his allies. Twenty-four minutes, and the maps carry it: two consular armies splitting and closing again is movement that defeats prose.

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22mHannibal 212 BC - The Illusion of Victory: First Battle of Capua (Part 22) HistoryMarcheYouTube

Twenty-two minutes on the first fight at Capua in 212 BC, animated, part two of the sequence. Hannibal takes the field and the siege lines close behind him anyway.

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The Late Republic 133 – 44 BC · 5

1h 22mSulla the Dictator: The Man Who Taught Caesar How to Rule: Sulla's Civil War (ALL PARTS) HistoryMarcheYouTube

The dictatorship as a template, and the argument that Caesar copied a working model. Sulla laid down the office voluntarily, which is the part Caesar left out.

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39mDictator Who Conquered Rome: Sulla's Civil War (Part 1) - Battle of Tifata, 83 BC HistoryMarcheYouTube

Part one of the animated Sulla series, on the first Roman army to march on its own city.

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25mCaesar before Caesar: Gaius Marius - Battle of Vercellae, 101 BC - Cimbrian War (Part 3) HistoryMarcheYouTube

Vercellae in 101 BC and the reforms that made it winnable. Marius as the model Caesar inherited.

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23mPsychology over steel: Battle of Faventia 82 BC - Sulla's Civil War (Part 2) HistoryMarcheYouTube

Faventia in 82 BC, where the animation shows morale deciding a battle that numbers said should go the other way.

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22mBloodbath at the Colline Gate, 82 BC - Decisive battle of Sulla's Civil War (Part 3) HistoryMarcheYouTube

The battle fought at the walls of Rome itself, which settled Sulla's war and began the proscriptions.

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The Fall of the West AD 395 – 565 · 1

1h 03mJustinianâs Italian Dream: Narses and the Last Roman Victory in the West (ALL PARTS) HistoryMarcheYouTube

Narses in Italy, the eunuch general who finished what Belisarius started. He was past seventy when he took the command and he won every battle he fought.

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Roman Life, Army and Culture across the centuries · 4

1h 21mRome Refused to Fall: The Cimbrian War (113 - 101 BC) - ALL PARTS HistoryMarcheYouTube

All parts of the Cimbrian war in one sitting, on the invasion that nearly ended Rome before Marius rebuilt the army.

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33mRoman Legions Against the Storm: Aquae Sextiae 102 BC - Cimbrian War Part 2 HistoryMarcheYouTube

Aquae Sextiae in 102 BC, the first of the two battles that stopped the migration.

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22mRome's Last Battle: Volturnus 554 HistoryMarcheYouTube

Volturnus in 554, the last battle a Roman army won in Italy. A quiet end to the animation series.

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20mThree Days of Blood: Battle of Nisibis 217 AD - Roman Empire vs Parthia HistoryMarcheYouTube

Nisibis in 217, three days against Parthia that ended with Rome paying two hundred million sesterces to go home.

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