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Fufidius, the aforementioned governor of
Hispania Ulterior, to do something about the rebels in his province. So he marched his army, which was already assembled for the invasion of Lusitania, toward Baelo. Sertorius was an active commander and decided not to wait for Fufidius, but marched his little army east. The two forces met at the estuary of the Baetis River.
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for the next eight years. He would outgeneral every
Republican commander sent against him and destroyed several of their armies. At the height of his power Sertorius ruled almost all of the Iberian Peninsula. The war would only come to an end when a number of Sertorius' own men became disgruntled,
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African adventurers and mercenaries. The Lusitanians sent him 4,700 of their warriors. Added to this were an unknown number of disaffected local Romans, Turdetani, Celtiberians, and Roman and Italian refugees. All in all, Sertorius had an army of over 8,000 men. It fell to
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tribe who were about to be invaded by a Sullan governor, approached him. They requested
Sertorius to become their war leader in the fight against the Sullans. Sertorius accepted the request and late in 80 BC Sertorius landed at the little fishing town of
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Fufidius lost two thousand men, and the greater part of further
Hispania along with them. He survived the battle, but vanished into obscurity, remembered mainly as the man who had lost Hispania to Sertorius.
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The Baetis estuary was a swampy maze which favoured those with local knowledge. As a number of
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Iberian provinces from Sertorius. After a brief resistance Sertorius and his men were expelled from Hispania. They ended up in
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conspired against him and assassinated him during a banquet.
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