Battle of Mons Lactarius

Battle of Mons Lactarius

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle of Mons Lactarius
partof=the Gothic War


caption=Battle on the slopes of the Vesuvius
date=October 553
place=Monti Lattari, Campania, Italy
casus=
territory=
result=Decisive Byzantine victory
combatant1=Byzantine Empire
combatant2=Ostrogothic Kingdom
commander1=Narses
commander2=Teia†
strength1=
strength2=
casualties1=
casualties2=The Battle of Mons Lactarius (also known as Battle of the Vesuvius) took place in 553 during the Gothic War waged on behalf of Justinian I against the Ostrogoths in Italy.

After the Battle of Taginae, in which the Ostrogoth king Totila was killed, the Byzantine general Narses captured Rome and besieged Cumae. Teia, the new Ostrogothic king, gathered the remnants of the Ostrogothic army and marched to relieve the siege, but in October of 553 Narses ambushed him at "Mons Lactarius" (modern Monti Lattari) in Campania, near Mt. Vesuvius and Nuceria Alfaterna. The battle lasted two days, and Teia was killed in the fighting. Ostrogothic power in Italy was eliminated, but Narses allowed the few survivors to return to their homes as subjects of the empire. The absence of any real authority in Italy immediately after the battle led to an invasion by the Franks, but they too were defeated and the peninsula was, for a short time, reintegrated into the empire.

References

* [http://www.storia.unive.it/_RM/didattica/anto_ame/cap_III/III_3_it.htm#A Procopius, Gothic War, iv 31–32]
* [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/BURLAT/19C*.html#11 "History of the Later Roman Empire" by J. B. Bury] , from Lacus Curtius


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