-72 ⟶ Lucullus' Victories Over Mithridates: Battles of Tenedos, Cyzicus, and Rhyndacus

73-72 BC: Lucullus defeats Mithridates at Tenedos, Cyzicus, ...
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⚔️ Lucullus' Victories Over Mithridates: Battles of Tenedos, Cyzicus, and Rhyndacus

73-72 BC: Lucullus defeats Mithridates at Tenedos, Cyzicus, and the Rhyndacus and he flees east to Armenia⟶
Lucullus' Victories Over Mithridates: Battles of Tenedos, Cyzicus, and Rhyndacus (-72)
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⚔️ Lucullus Defeats Tigranes the Great at Tigranocerta

Lucullus invades Armenia (Battle of Tigranocerta) and reestablishes the Seleucids in Syria.⟶
Lucullus Defeats Tigranes the Great at Tigranocerta (-69)
Ancient romeSeleucid EmpireTigranes the GreatLucullusBattleAncient greeceConquestExpansionismAncient Warfare
ArmeniaArmeniaTurkeyTurkeySyriaSyria

⚔️ Pompey Takes Command in the Third Mithridatic War

Pompey replaces Lucullus as leader of the Roman forces in the Third Mithridatic War.⟶
Pompey Takes Command in the Third Mithridatic War (-68)
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⚔️ Pompey's Victory Over Mithridates at the Battle of the Lycus

Pompey drives Mithridates VI out of Asia Minor (Battle of the Lycus).⟶
Pompey's Victory Over Mithridates at the Battle of the Lycus (-66)
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⚔️ Corbulo's Legions Train in Cappadocia

Winter – Domitius Corbulo marches his legions (Legio VI Ferrata and Legio X) into the mountains of Cappadocia and makes camp. He gives the men a harsh training, twenty-five-mile marches and weapons drills.⟶
Corbulo's Legions Train in Cappadocia (54)
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🛡️ Corbulo Captures Tigranocerta and Installs Tigranes VI in Armenia

Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman commander in the east, captures Tigranocerta in Mesopotamia. He installs Tigranes VI, a Cappadocian prince, as ruler of Armenia. For the next four years, a cohort from Legio VI Ferrata and Legio X Fretensis is stationed in the capital as bodyguard to the king, supported by fifteen hundred auxiliaries.⟶
Corbulo Captures Tigranocerta and Installs Tigranes VI in Armenia (59)
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