The Battle of Ravenna took place on the 2 September 476 and was a minor confrontation between the Ostrogoths under their King Odoacer and the remnants of the Western Roman Army in Italy. The battle occurred outside the western capital of Ravenna and saw the Ostrogoths defeated the Roman troops and the city was captured swiftly and easily.

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  • The Battle of Ravenna took place on the 2 September 476 and was a minor confrontation between the Ostrogoths under their King Odoacer and the remnants of the Western Roman Army in Italy. The battle occurred outside the western capital of Ravenna and saw the Ostrogoths defeated the Roman troops and the city was captured swiftly and easily. Two days later the Emperor Romulus Augustulus was forced to abdicate by Odoacer effectively ending one thousand years of Roman rule in Italy beginning with the Roman Kingdom in 753BC. Romulus was sent into retirement in Campania.
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  • The Battle of Ravenna took place on the 2 September 476 and was a minor confrontation between the Ostrogoths under their King Odoacer and the remnants of the Western Roman Army in Italy. The battle occurred outside the western capital of Ravenna and saw the Ostrogoths defeated the Roman troops and the city was captured swiftly and easily.
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  • Battle of Ravenna (476)
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