 In 1805 the Republic became a new Kingdom of Italy, in personal union with France.After the Battle of Taginae, in which the Ostrogoth king Totila was killed, the Byzantine general Narses captured Rome and besieged Cumae.Teia, the new Ostrogothic king, gathered the remnants of the Ostrogothic army and marched to relieve the siege, but in October 552 Narses ambushed him at "Mons Lactarius" (modern Monti Lattari) in Campania, near Mount Vesuvius and Nuceria Alfaterna.