A Short History of the Punic Wars
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- First Punic War whole source
The First Punic War began in 264 BCE, when Rome intervened in a quarrel on Sicilian soil and found itself, almost by accident, at war with C…
- Battle of the Aegates Islands whole source
The decisive engagement came in 241 BCE off the Aegates Islands, where a rebuilt Roman fleet destroyed the Carthaginian relief force.
- Hannibal crosses the Alps whole source
The Second Punic War opened in 218 BCE when Hannibal marched his army, elephants and all, out of Spain, over the Alps, and into Italy.
- Battle of Cannae whole source
At Cannae in 216 BCE Hannibal enveloped and annihilated a Roman army of some eighty thousand men, the worst defeat Rome ever suffered in a s…
- Battle of Zama whole source
The war turned when Scipio carried the fight to Africa, and at Zama in 202 BCE Hannibal was at last beaten on his own ground.