Italy: Wars and Conquests

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The enemies of the Roman Republic, in its first century, were planted a very few miles away; and very gradually did the city by the Tiber cease to have only a mere Ager... a wide-stretching domain, with the frontier far distant.
From ElfinSpell
(458 BC; English translation)
Livy and Polybius’ accounts of Hannibal’s campaign during the Second Punic War.
Livius.org
(2nd century BC; English transcription)
After the assassination of Tiberius Gracchus, Gaius is planning to campaign for the tribunate to carry on his slain brother's political program. Cornelia attempts to discourage him.
From Diotíma
(133 BC; English translation)
Two letters from Cicero written to his friend Atticus in the fall of the year 54 B. C. give a glimpse of the way Cæsar’s invasion of Britain looked to contemporary Romans.
From Elfin Spell
(54 BC, English translation)
By Julius Caesar on his firsthand experience in the Gallic Wars
English translation HERE
From The Latin Library
(49 BC; Latin transcription)
By Julius Caesar about the war against Senate and Gnaeus Pompous
Commentary on the Spanish War
Commentary on the African War
The Alexandrian War
From Internet Classics Archive
(48 BC; English translation)
Account by Livy. Among the very old formulas and usages that survived at Rome down to relatively late times, this method of declaring war holds a notable place.
From Elfin Spell
(1st century BC; English translation)
  • Gaius Julius Caesar's Brutal Campaign
Selections from Caesar's Gallic War
Caesar on the First Germanic Campaign
Caesar on the Usipetes and Tencteri
In cooperation with Livius
(1st century BC; English translation)
Shows Marius and Sulla's entrance to the Roman political scene.
From Lacus Curtius
(1st century BC; English translation)
From Posidonius' Geography'
Made available by Attalus
(1st century BC; English translation)
From Posidonius' Geography'
Made available by Attalus
(1st century BC; English translation)
Ancient book on Greek and Roman battle strategies
From LacusCurtius
(1st century; English and Latin)
  • Battle in the Teutoburg Forest
The clades Variana, in which allied Germanic tribes ambushed three Roman legions and ended the expansion of the Roman Empire into Northern Europe. This battle is often seen as Rome's greatest defeat.
Account by Paterculus
Account by Tacitus
Account by Florus
Account by Cassius Dio
(7 AD; English translation)
The attack on the island of Mona or Anglesea, which thus gave opportunity for a revolt of the still but half-conquered Britons, and the subsequent events of this year of war, A. D. 61, are more fully described in another of Tacitus’ works, his Annals.
From Elfin Spell
(61 AD; English translation)
Refer to #14. "These warriors are said to have assailed the Romans with the utmost fierceness, even using their teeth to pull from their flesh the missiles with which the Osroëni wounded them."
From Cassius Dio's ROMAN HISTORY at LacusCurtius
(2rd century AD; English translation)
This history of Rome is not entirely accurate with details but still offers an interesting look at wars with several tribal nations.
Made available by LacusCurtius
(2nd century AD; Latin transcriptions and English translations)
Transcription of Justin’s history of the world, including wars of the Romans.
Forum Romanum
(3rd century AD; English, French and Latin translations)
Account by Herodian
From Elfin Spell
(211 AD; English translation)
Includes an account of the war against German guerrillas, food riots in Rome, attempts at the court of Constantius to get rid of Julian.
From LacusCurtius
(380s AD; English and Latin transcriptions)
The Military Institutions of the Romans by Flavius Vegetius Renatus.
(390 AD; English translation)
Online database including primary sources surrounding Roman Military History.
Compiled by LacusCurtius
(original texts or English translation)
These passages include fights and interactions with the Slavs.
(537-558; English translation)
By Paolo Giovio. Eyewitness accounts of the Italian Wars with much written on Skanderbeg.
(1554; Latin facsimile)
Source: 60 Jahre auf Habsburgs Throne (Vienna: Pallas, 1908). vol. I, pp. 2263-265.
(28 April, 1859; German transcription)
Treaty ending Turco-Italian War. Also called First Treaty of Lausanne.
(October 18, 1912; English)
Documenting events from before Sarajevo until after Versailles.
(pre-1914 - post-1918; translations and transcriptions)
Major Resource.
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1914-1918; transcriptions and translations)
Photographs and other documentation on the war.
(1915-1918; Italian)
Stopped warfare between Italy and Austria-Hungary.
(1918; English translation)
As announced in the Völkischer Beobachter.
(23 May 1939; English translation)
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1939-1945; transcriptions and translations)
A collection of documents related to WWII.
From the Avalon Project.
Official (mainly U.S.) government histories, source documents, and other primary references.
(1939-1945; English transcriptions and translations)
Official instrument of armistice and surrender of Italy, Germany and Japan in World War II.
(October 4, 1945; transcription)

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