Numantia
Americannoun
noun
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The preceeding successes caused great depression amongst the Spanish troops, and on the following day the battalion of Numantia, numbering 650 disciplined men, deserted in a body, and joined the Chilian forces at Chancay.
From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 by Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of
Numantia is an early Saragossa, Saragossa a modern Numantia.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
This was that Scipio that afterwards destroyed Carthage and Numantia, and was, without dispute, the first of the Romans in merit, and had the greatest authority amongst them.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
This was that Scipio who afterwards took by storm Carthage and Numantia, and became by far the most famous and powerful of all the Romans of his time.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey
Sempronius Gracchus, whom they trusted, came forward to pledge his honour that Numantia should be fairly treated.
From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?
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