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Battle of Tapae
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Domitian’s Dacian War

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Decebalus of Dacia invaded Roman Moesia (roughly Bulgaria), where he killed Governor Oppius Sabinius. Emperor Domitian then sent a large force under his Prefect of the Praetorian Guards, Cornelius Fuscus, who used a bridge of boats to cross the Danube into Dacia itself. In a disastrous defeat near the Dacian capital at Tapae, Fuscus was killed along with up to two entire Legions.


   
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