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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afterwards he led the Roman expedition to Africa but was defeated at the Bagradas River in spring of 255 BC. He was captured and then probably died of natural causes...
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The Battle of Bagradas, the Bagradas, or the Bagradas River (the ancient name of the Medjerda) may refer to: Battle of the Bagradas River (255 BC), also...
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The naval Battle of Drepana (or Drepanum) took place in 249 BC during the First Punic War near Drepana (modern Trapani) in western Sicily, between a Carthaginian...
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few months later, at the battle of the Bagradas River (battle of Tunis), Regulus was defeated and his army all but wiped out. The war continued for a further...
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The naval Battle of Salamis in 306 BC took place off Salamis, Cyprus between the fleets of Ptolemy I of Egypt and Antigonus I Monophthalmus, two of the...
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The Battle of the Aegates was a naval battle fought on 10 March 241 BC between the fleets of Carthage and Rome during the First Punic War. It took place...
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The Battle of Cape Ecnomus or Eknomos (Ancient Greek: Ἔκνομος) was a naval battle, fought off southern Sicily, in 256 BC, between the fleets of Carthage...
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The Roman withdrawal from Africa was the attempt by the Roman Republic in 255 BC to rescue the survivors of their defeated expeditionary force to Carthaginian...
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of Aspis – 255 BC – First Punic War (Punic Wars) Battle of Adys – 255 BC – First Punic War (Punic Wars) Battle of the Bagradas River (255 BC) – 255 BC...
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BC, Battle of the Bagradas River 219-218 BC, Siege of Saguntum 218 BC, Crossing of the Alps and the Battle of Trebia 217 BC, Battle of Raphia 207 BC,...
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Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore p.201 Winter, Irene J., "After the Battle Is Over: The ‘Stele of the Vultures’ and the Beginning of Historical Narrative...
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Hamilcar Barca (category 270s BC births)
237 BC, and for eight years expanded the territory of Carthage in Spain before dying in battle in 228 BC. He may have been responsible for creating the strategy...
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Punic Wars (section Africa, 256–255 BC)
to fight on. 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...
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Roman Republic (redirect from Early Italian campaigns (458–396 BC))
Xanthippus, to command their troops. In 255, the Spartan general marched on Regulus, crushing the Roman infantry on the Bagradas plain; only 2,000 soldiers escaped...
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First Punic War (category 3rd century BC in the Roman Republic)
attempted to lift the siege in 262 BC but was heavily defeated at the Battle of Akragas. The Romans then built a navy to challenge the Carthaginians, and...
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The Battle of Ibera, also known as the Battle of Dertosa, was fought in the spring of 215 BC on the south bank of the Ebro River near the town of Ibera...
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Marcus Aemilius Paullus (category 3rd-century BC Roman consuls)
to rescue the remnants of the army of proconsul Marcus Atilius Regelus, who had been defeated in the Battle of the Bagradas River earlier that year. Onroute...
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Autumn 240 BCE Battle of the Bagradas River Autumn 240 BCE Hamilcar's victory with Navaras 238 BCE Battle of "The Saw" 238 BCE Siege of Tunis 218–201 BCE...
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The Battle of Panormus was fought in Sicily in 250 BC during the First Punic War between a Roman army led by Lucius Caecilius Metellus and a Carthaginian...
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The naval Battle of Phintias took place in 249 BC during the First Punic War near modern Licata, southern Sicily between the fleets of Carthage under Carthalo...
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at the Battle of Bagradas River in 255 BC, capturing Regulus in the process and ending the Roman threat in Africa for the time being. In 247 BC, after...
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240 BCE Battle of the Bagradas River Autumn 240 BCE Hamilcar's victory with Navaras 238 BCE Battle of "The Saw" 238 BCE Siege of Tunis 218 — 201 BCE Second...
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Servius Fulvius Paetinus Nobilior (category 3rd-century BC Roman consuls)
of 350 warships to Africa to rescue the remnants of the army of proconsul Marcus Atilius Regelus, who had been defeated at the Battle of the Bagradas...
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Carthage (redirect from The Ancient City of Carthage)
the city walls of Carthage is the Chora or farm lands of Carthage. Chora encompassed a limited area: the north coastal tell, the lower Bagradas river...
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should also mention the snake that Livy talks about in such detail and with such style. He says that in Africa, near the river Bagradas, there was a snake...
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Hamilcar's victory with Naravas (category Battles of the Mercenary War)
rebel army of 25,000 under Spendius moved to attack it in the Battle of the Bagradas River. After a complex battle, the Carthaginians routed the rebels,...
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The siege of Aspis or Clupea was fought in 256 BC between Carthage and the Roman Republic. It was the first fighting on African land during the First...
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Stotzas. Battle of the River Bagradas: Belisarius defeats the mutineers, and hurries back to Sicily. January 26 – Senka succeeds his brother Ankan as the 28th...
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identify a new association: Idris elba Talamas, sp. nov. parasitizes the eggs of Bagrada hilaris (Burmeister)". J. Hymenopt. Res. 73 (73): 125–141. doi:10...
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