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Benevento, Battle of

Years: 1266 - 1266

The Battle of Benevento is fought near Benevento, in present-day Southern Italy, on February 26, 1266, between the troops of Charles of Anjou and Manfred of Sicily.

Manfred's defeat and death results in the capture of the Kingdom of Sicily by Charles.

"History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends."

― Mark Twain, The Gilded Age (1874)