Battles of the First Punic War
Through the 1st Punic War, Rome lost several fleets to this act of Mother Nature...
What are Storms?
This Famous battle saw Hannibal destroy a much larger Roman army by encircling it with his much smaller army...
What is the Battle of Cannae?
In one of Hannibals most famous moves, he crossed this mountain range before appearing in Italy...
What are the Alps?
The Punic Wars were mainly between these two nations...
What are Rome and Carthage?
This famous Carthaginian General nearly single handedly won the 2nd Punic War by invading Rome through the Alps...
Who is Hannibal Barca?
Right after the 1st Punic War, Carthage fell into a civil war and Rome took the oppertunity to take these two very important islands...
What are the Islands of Sardinia and Corsica?
This major confrontation between Scipio Africanus and Hannibal would be the last major battle of the Second Punic War...
What is the Battle of Zama?
Hannibal's army would also cross this mountain range in the north of Iberia...
What are the Pyrenees?
This strategic island would see the majority of the conflict that occured in the First Punic War...
What is the Island of Sicily?
This Roman General would beat the Carthaginian forces in Spain and would invade Africa, winning Rome the 2nd Punic War...
Who is Scipio Africanus?
This Naval Battle is the largest by combatants involved in all of history and was the prelude to the Roman invasion of Carthage...
What is the Battle of Cape Ecnomus?
The invention of this device and implementation onto Roman vessels both gave the Romans a huge advantage during sea combat and also made their ships much more vulnerable to advert weather...
What is the Corvus?
The Roman forces in Spain would stun Carthage after taking this major city is under a day...
What is the Battle of New Carthage?
How much is 20%
One Roman senator many years after Carthage lost the 2nd Punic War said this phrase after every speech to encourage Carthage's destruction...
What is Carthago Delenda Est?
The Grandson of this famous Roman General would lead the Roman forces to burn Carthage in the 3rd Punic War...
This siege lasted nearly the entire First Punic Was and centered on a key Sicilian stronghold...
What is the Siege of Lilybaeum?
The crisis in this city between the Mamertines and the Syracusians would be the spark that started the 1st Punic War...
What was the Messana Crisis?
During this battle, Hannibal would trap Consul Flaminius' legions between the hills and a lake, causing the Romans 30,000 Casualties...
What is the Battle of Lake Trasimene?
After the Battle of Cannae, the Romans reverted to using this strategy that was previously used by their dictator...
What are Fabian Tactics?
The Carthaginian army primarily relied on this type of soldier...
What are mercenaries?
This Roman dictator nearly single handedly saved Rome from Hannibal by not engaging him and buying time for Rome to recoup their losses...
Who is Fabius Maximus?
THis Battle would see a double siege with the Carthaginians besieging Roman forces who were besieging other Carthaginian forces. it would end in a Roman victory even though they lost 4x as many soldiers....
What is the Battle of Agrigentum?
This Sicilian state betrayed Carthage and joined Rome in the 1st Punic War after being besieged...
What is Syracuse?
The loss of this battle would be the final nail in the coffin for Carthaginian Forces in Spain...
What is the Battle of Ilipa?
Hannibal's forces besieging and taking this city would lead to the start of the 2nd Punic War...
What was Saguntum?
This city in Italy was the 2nd largest only behind Rome and switched allegiances during the 2nd Punic War...
What is the City of Capua?
This Carthaginian General during the 1st War would hold Sicily from Rome and would father Hannibal Barca...
Who is Hamilcar Barca?
This Clash between the Roman and Carthaginian Navy was the first documented use of the spiked gangway and was a major victory for Rome...
What is the Battle of Mylae?
During the First Punic War, this Carthaginian class of Ship beached on Roman shores and provided the blueprints to create a brand new navy...
What is a Quinquireme?
This famous battle in what is now northern Italy saw Rome lose 20,000 soldiers by an ambush in a forest...
What was the Battle of Silva Litana/Litana Forest?
Rome allying with a rival king of this nation allowed them to utilize much better cavalry against Carthage...
What is Numidia?
This Treaty made during the period between the 1st and 2nd Punic Wars separated the Spheres of Influence in Iberia between Carthage and Rome...
What is the Ebro River Treaty?
This Spartan Mercenary commanded Carthaginian forces in Africa during the First Punic War and he successfully drove the Romans out...
Who is Xanthippus?
This Naval Battle would be the final major Battle of the 1st Punic War with the Romans beating the Carthaginians...
What is the Battle of the Aegates Islands?
What was the Shipwreck of 255 BC?
This battle at the start of the war had the chance to end Hannibal as Publius Scipio nearly cut Hannibal's forces off as they were attempting to cross a river...
What is the Battle of the Rhone River?
What is the Valley of Ager Falernus?
The general Hannibal would die after getting ratted out to Rome and would die in this way while with the Historian Livy...
What is Suicide?
This ancient historian is our most important surviving source of the Punic Wars, having done extensive work on the 1st and 2nd...
Who is Polybius?