• During the siege of Tunis in October 238 BC a rebel army under Mathos was besieged by a Carthaginian force under Hamilcar Barca and Hannibal. The Carthaginian...
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    The Mercenary War, also known as the Truceless War, was a mutiny by troops that were employed by Carthage at the end of the First Punic War (264–241 BC)...
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  • Conquest, Capture or Siege of Tunis may refer to: Siege of Tunis (Mercenary War) (238 BC) Eighth Crusade (1270) Conquest of Tunis (1534), a conquest by...
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  • Battle of Tunis may refer to: Battle of White Tunis (310 BC) Battle of the Bagradas (255 BC) Siege of Tunis (Mercenary War) (238 BC) Battle of Lake Tunis (149...
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  • part in the Mercenary War between Carthage and rebelling mercenaries. During this war, he replaced Hanno II the Great as a commander of the Carthaginian...
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  • This is a list of mercenaries. It includes foreign volunteers, private military contractors, and other "soldiers of fortune". Andrade, Tonio. (2016) The...
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    The siege of Carthage was the main engagement of the Third Punic War fought between Carthage and Rome. It consisted of the nearly-three-year siege of the...
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    The Siege of Vienna, in 1529, was the first attempt by the Ottoman Empire to capture the city of Vienna in the Archduchy of Austria, part of the Holy Roman...
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    The siege of Syracuse by the Roman Republic took place in 213–212 BC. The Romans successfully stormed the Hellenistic city of Syracuse after a protracted...
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    The siege of Saguntum took place in 219 BC between the Carthaginians and the Saguntines at the town of Saguntum, near the modern town of Sagunto in the...
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    At the battle of Tunis in spring 255 BC a combined force of infantry, cavalry and war elephants under the command of the Spartan mercenary Xanthippus crushed...
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  • Part of the First Punic War Battle of "The Saw" (238 BC) – Part of the Mercenary War Siege of Tunis (238 BC) – Part of the Mercenary War Siege of Medion...
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    The Battle of the Bagradas River (the ancient name of the Medjerda), also known as the Battle of Tunis, was a victory by a Carthaginian army led by Xanthippus...
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    siege to Carthage's main base at Akragas. A large Carthaginian army attempted to lift the siege in 262 BC but was heavily defeated at the Battle of Akragas...
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  • Saw". The mercenaries are besieged in the canyon. The mercenary army, under the leadership of Spendius, attempts to fight its way out of the siege but is...
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    The Great Siege of Malta (Maltese: L-Assedju l-Kbir) occurred in 1565 when the Ottoman Empire attempted to conquer the island of Malta, then held by the...
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    of costly battles and sieges, but with little gain on either side. The major participants of the war were the Habsburg Monarchy, the Principality of Transylvania...
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  • (Punic Wars) Siege of Tunis (Mercenary War) – 238 BC – Mercenary War (Punic Wars) Battle of Leptis Parva – 238 BC – Mercenary War (Punic Wars) Siege of Utica...
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    of the war. Dionysius soon rebuilt his power and sacked Solus in 396 BC. He was engaged in eastern Sicily during 396-393 BC, including the Siege of Tauromenium...
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    were blamed on mercenary soldiers within the Hungarian ranks. When the Turks turned their attention to the northern Hungarian town of Eger in the same...
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  • Carthage after the peace treaty in 241 BC, following the defeat of Carthage. When the Mercenary War broke out in 239 BC, Hamilcar was recalled to command and...
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    a war and ultimately found themselves allied in World War I, after which both empires were dissolved. Historians have focused on the second siege of Vienna...
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  • the Mercenary War. The Libyan forces loyal to the mercenaries besiege the towns of Utica and Hippacritae, which refuse to defect to the mercenaries. Hanno...
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    Great Turkish War (German: Großer Türkenkrieg), also called the Wars of the Holy League (Turkish: Kutsal İttifak Savaşları), was a series of conflicts between...
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  • This is a List of wars involving the Ottoman Empire ordered chronologically, including civil wars within the empire. The earliest form of the Ottoman military...
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    was fought after a long siege which started in 262 BC and resulted both in a Roman victory and the beginning of Roman control of Sicily. Agrigentum is a...
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    1985; 2,131 years after the war ended. As of 2020 the modern settlement of Carthage was a district of the city of Tunis. The term Punic comes from the...
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  • The Battle of Lake Tunis was a series of engagements of the Third Punic War fought in 149 BC between the Carthaginians and the Roman Republic. Roman consuls...
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  • as the Mercenary War. He escaped or was rescued from slavery in Campania and was recruited into the Carthaginian Army during the First Punic War at some...
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  • have participated in the Mercenary War will encourage others to defect, Mathos and Spendius order the mutilation and execution of "about seven hundred" Carthaginian...
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