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Did Spartacus' army have any success?

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Their army defeated several Roman forces and moved north, devastating S Italy and Campania, and in 72 BC they were back in S Italy. They took Thurii and got through a cordon which Marcus Licinius Crassus stretched across the "toe" of Italy.

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