Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Tigranocerta (Third Mithridatic War).

Fought B.C. 69, when the Romans, 10,000 strong, under Lucullus, who was besieging the city, were attacked by 200,000 Pontic and Armenian troops, under Tigranes. Tigranes had failed to occupy some high ground which commanded the position of his cavalry. This Lucullus seized, and attacking the Pontic cavalry in rear, broke it.[it.] He then attacked and routed the infantry, with a loss according to the Roman account of 100,000. The Romans lost 5 men only.