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NUMANTIA , an See also:ancient See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill fortress in See also:northern See also:Spain, in the See also:province of See also:Soria (Old See also:Castile), overhanging the See also:village of Garray, near the See also:town of Soria, on the upper See also:Douro. Here, on a small isolated high See also:plateau in the See also:middle of the valley, was the stronghold which played the See also:principal See also:part in a famous struggle between the conquering See also:Romans and the native Spaniards during the years 154-133 B.C. Numantia was especially concerned in the latter part of this See also:war from 144 onwards. It was several times unsuccessfully besieged. Once the See also:Roman See also:general Hostilius Mancinus with his whole See also:army was compelled to surrender (137). Finally, Scipio Aemilianus, See also:Rome's first and only general in that See also:age, with some 6o,000 men See also:drew See also:round the town 6 m. of continuous entrenchments with seven camps at intervals. After 15 months (134-133) he reduced by See also:hunger the 6000-8000 Numantine soldiers, much as See also:Caesar afterwards reduced See also:Alesia in See also:Gaul. The result was regarded as a glorious victory, and in Roman literature the fall of Numantia was placed beside the fall of See also:Carthage (149 B.C.). In truth, the See also:maintenance in effective See also:condition of so large a Roman force in so remote and difficult a region was in itself a real achievement and such as at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time no one but Scipio could have performed. He redeemed by organized See also:strategy the vacillations and follies of statesmen who had sat at See also:home and sent out inadequate expeditions or incompetent commanders. The site was, under the Roman See also:Empire, occupied by a Roman town called Numantia, and the Itinerary tells of a Roman road which ran past it. It is to-See also:day a " Monumento Nacional " of Spain, and has yielded
(1905-1910), who has traced the Celtiberian town, the lines of Scipio and several other Roman camps dating from the Numantine See also:Wars. (F. J.
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