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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Marcus Claudius Marcellus

268 BC - 208 BC

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Marcus Claudius Marcellus (; c. 270 – 208 BC), five times elected as consul of the Roman Republic, was an important Roman military leader during the Gallic War of 225 BC and the Second Punic War. Marcellus gained the most prestigious award a Roman general could earn, the spolia opima, for killing the Gallic military leader and king Viridomarus in single combat in 222 BC at the Battle of Clastidium. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcus Claudius Marcellus has received more than 370,192 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Marcus Claudius Marcellus is the 249th most popular military personnel (down from 214th in 2019).

Marcus Claudius Marcellus was a Roman general who, in the Second Punic War, defeated Hannibal at the Battle of the Metaurus.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Marcus Claudius Marcellus ranks 249 out of 1,468Before him are Hans von Seeckt, Muhammad bin Qasim, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Maurice Gamelin, Werner Mölders, and Pedro de Alvarado. After him are Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Zhang Liao, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Khalifa Haftar, Andrey Yeryomenko, and Eumenes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 268 BC, Marcus Claudius Marcellus ranks 1 Among people deceased in 208 BC, Marcus Claudius Marcellus ranks 3Before him are Chrysippus and Li Si. After him is Chen Sheng.

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