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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 7160165, member: 87809&quot;]In the third year of the War of the Slaves, the Praetor Marcus Licinius Crassus took over the Supreme Command of eight Legions and in six months he had under control the rebellion of the slaves. In his last battle (71 BC) Spartacus killed two centurions; injured by a spear in his thigh he fought to death. As a brave soldier and capable strategist, he was able to fight battles with his ungovernable troops against the Romans, but not to win war against the Roman legions.</p><p>The then forty-six years old Crassus had almost wiped out the Slave Army, and scattered troops were taken prisoners by Pompejus who was just returning to Italy from Spain with his victorious army. All prisoners, six thousand in numbers, were crucified on the road that led from Capua to Rome. Every 200 steps stood crosses with dying men who had tried to get rid of slavery.</p><p>Crassus, Rome’s richest man and Pompejus, the most successful general, both owed their accession to power to Sulla. But that is a different topic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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