Battle Of The Rhyndacus (85 BC)

	Battle Of The Rhyndacus (85 BC) Battle of the Rhyndacus River or Battle of the Rhyndacus can refer to one of several battles fought near the Rhyndacus River in modern Turkey: * Battle of the Rhyndacus (85 BC), during the First Mithridatic War between Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Romans under Flavius Fimbria * Battle of the Rhyndacus (72 BC), during the Third Mithridatic War between Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Romans under Lucullus * Battle of the Rhyndacus (1211), between the Nicaean Greeks under Theodore I and the Latin Empire under Henry of Flanders {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Battle Of The Rhyndacus (85 BC) Battle of the Rhyndacus River or Battle of the Rhyndacus can refer to one of several battles fought near the Rhyndacus River in modern Turkey: * Battle of the Rhyndacus (85 BC), during the First Mithridatic War between Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Romans under Flavius Fimbria * Battle of the Rhyndacus (72 BC), during the Third Mithridatic War between Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Romans under Lucullus * Battle of the Rhyndacus (1211), between the Nicaean Greeks under Theodore I and the Latin Empire under Henry of Flanders {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Battle Of The Rhyndacus (72 BC) The Battle of the Rhyndacus occurred in 73 BC between a Roman Republican force under the command of the proconsul Lucius Licinius Lucullus and a division of the army of Mithridates VI of Pontus as part of the Third Mithridatic War. The Romans were victorious. Lucullus, based in Cilicia, had foregone his planned invasion of Pontus from the south to come north and rescue his colleague, proconsul Marcus Aurelius Cotta, whom Mithridates had besieged at Cyzicus on the Sea of Marmara. Lucullus's army caught the Pontic army off guard and lay an effective counter-siege, trapping the Mithridatic army on the Cyzicus peninsula. With the onset of winter and running low on supplies, Mithridates decided to send his sick, his wounded, and his cavalry east into Bithynia. The Pontic column was commanded by Neoptolemus, who was the brother of Archelaus. In the middle of a snowstorm, Lucullus met these forces with ten cohorts along the banks of the Rhyndacus. The Romans had a small advance g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]