Battle of Taginae

Battle Of Taginae

Iberian War

• Dara
• Satala
• Callinicum

Vandalic War

• Ad Decimum
• Tricamarum

Gothic War

• 1st Naples
• 1st Rome
• Verona
• Faventia
• Mucellium
• 2nd Naples
• 2nd Rome
• 3rd Rome
• Sena Gallica
• Taginae
• Mons Lactarius
• Volturnus

Conquest of Spania

Moorish Wars

• Mammes and Bourgaon
• Babosis and Zerboule
• Cillium
• Marta
• Fields of Cato

Lazic War

• Phasis

At the Battle of Taginae (also known as the Battle of Busta Gallorum) in June/July 552, the forces of the Byzantine Empire under Narses broke the power of the Ostrogoths in Italy, and paved the way for the temporary Byzantine reconquest of the Italian Peninsula.

From as early as 549 the Emperor Justinian I had planned to dispatch a major army to Italy to conclude the protracted war with the Ostrogoths initiated in 535. During 550-51 a large expeditionary force totaling 20,000 or possibly 25,000 men was gradually assembled at Salona on the Adriatic, comprising regular Byzantine units and a large contingent of foreign allies, notably Lombards, Heruls and Bulgars. The imperial chamberlain (cubicularius) Narses was appointed to command in mid 551. The following spring Narses led this grand army around the coast of the Adriatic as far as Ancona, and then turned inland aiming to march down the Via Flaminia to Rome.