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Message: <blockquote data-quote="හෙළයෙක්" data-source="post: 27950369" data-attributes="member: 503645">[MEDIA=youtube]RvaXBKUDG-Y[/MEDIA]<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Spartacus-Roman-gladiator" target="_blank">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Spartacus-Roman-gladiator</a>A Thracian by birth, Spartacus served in the Roman army, perhaps deserted, led bandit raids, and was caught and sold as a slave. With about 70 fellow gladiators he escaped a gladiatorial <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/reformatory" target="_blank">training school</a> at <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Capua-ancient-city-Italy" target="_blank">Capua</a> in 73 and took refuge on <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Vesuvius" target="_blank">Mount Vesuvius</a>, where other runaway slaves joined the band. After defeating two Roman forces in <a href="https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/succession" target="_blank">succession</a>, the rebels overran most of southern Italy. Ultimately their numbers grew to at least 90,000. Spartacus defeated the two consuls for the year 72 and fought his way northward toward the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Alps" target="_blank">Alps</a>, hoping to be able to disperse his soldiers to their homelands once they were outside Italy. When his men refused to leave Italy, he returned to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Lucania" target="_blank">Lucania</a> and sought to cross his forces over to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Sicily" target="_blank">Sicily</a> but was thwarted by the new Roman commander sent against him, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marcus-Licinius-Crassus" target="_blank">Marcus Licinius Crassus</a>. Hemmed in by Crassus’s eight legions, Spartacus’s army divided. The Gauls and Germans were defeated first, and Spartacus himself ultimately fell fighting in pitched battle. Pompey’s army intercepted and killed many slaves who were escaping northward, and 6,000 prisoners were crucified by Crassus along the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Appian-Way" target="_blank">Appian Way</a>.</blockquote>

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