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The Punic Wars
Before 264 BC
c. 270 BC
Carthage
c. 270 BC
Rome and Italy
264 – 241 BC: The First Punic War
Battle of Messana, 264 BC
289 – 264 BC
The Mamertines and Messana
264 BC
The crossing and the Syracusans
264 – 263 BC
The Carthaginians withdraw
Siege of Agrigentum, 262 – 261 BC
262 BC
The march on Agrigentum
Summer to November 262 BC
The siege lines
Winter 262 – 261 BC
Hanno’s relief army
Spring 261 BC
The battle and the fall of the city
Battle of Mylae, 260 BC
260 BC
The Roman fleet
260 BC
The corvus
260 BC
The attack on the flanks
Battle of Cape Ecnomus, 256 BC
Spring and summer 256 BC
The invasion fleet
256 BC
The wedge and the line
256 BC
Three separate fights
256 BC
The Roman centre returns
Battle of Tunis, 255 BC
256 – 255 BC
Regulus in Africa
Spring 255 BC
The armies deploy
Spring 255 BC
Elephants and cavalry
Spring 255 BC
The Roman army destroyed
255 BC
The retreat and the storm
Battle of Panormus, 250 BC
254 – 250 BC
Panormus
Late summer 250 BC
The elephants at the walls
Late summer 250 BC
The elephants break
Battle of Drepana, 249 BC
250 – 249 BC
The siege of Lilybaeum
249 BC, dawn
Dawn off Drepana
249 BC, morning
The line against the shore
249 BC, afternoon
The Roman fleet destroyed
249 BC
Carthalo and the storm
Battle of the Aegates Islands, 241 BC
247 – 241 BC
Hamilcar at Eryx and the new Roman fleet
9 to 10 March 241 BC
The Romans intercept
10 March 241 BC
Battle off the Aegates
241 BC
The Treaty of Lutatius
241 – 218 BC: Between the wars
The Mercenary War, 241 – 237 BC
241 – 238 BC
The Mercenary War
238 BC
Trapped at the Saw
238 BC
The destruction at the Saw
238 – 237 BC
The end of the revolt
240 – 237 BC
Rome takes Sardinia and Corsica
237 – 220 BC
The Barcids in Iberia
Battle of Telamon, 225 BC
225 BC
The Gallic invasion of 225 BC
225 BC
The fight for the hill
225 BC
Javelins against the Gaesatae
225 BC
The cavalry charge
Siege of Saguntum, 219 BC
219 BC
Hannibal attacks Saguntum
Spring and summer 219 BC
The first assaults
219 BC
The fall of Saguntum
218 – 201 BC: The Second Punic War
218 – 216 BC: Hannibal in Italy
The Rhône and the Alps, 218 BC
June to November 218 BC
Hannibal’s march to Italy
Late September 218 BC
Hanno goes upstream
Late September 218 BC, the fifth day
The crossing
Late September 218 BC
The elephants cross
Battle of the Trebia, 218 BC
November and December 218 BC
From the Ticinus to the Trebia
22 or 23 December 218 BC, dawn
The Numidian lure
22 or 23 December 218 BC
The cavalry on the wings
22 or 23 December 218 BC
Mago’s attack
22 or 23 December 218 BC
The Roman centre breaks through
Battle of Lake Trasimene, 217 BC
Spring to 20 June 217 BC
The road to Trasimene
Night of 20 to 21 June 217 BC
The ambush is laid
21 June 217 BC, morning
The trap is sprung
21 June 217 BC
The Roman army destroyed
Battle of Ager Falernus, 217 BC
Summer 217 BC
Fabius the Delayer
Summer and autumn 217 BC
Hannibal hemmed in
Autumn 217 BC, night
The oxen with torches
Autumn 217 BC
Geronium and Minucius
Battle of Cannae, 216 BC
Spring to 1 August 216 BC
The road to Cannae
2 August 216 BC, morning
The armies deploy
2 August 216 BC
The cavalry battle
2 August 216 BC, afternoon
The encirclement
August 216 BC
After Cannae
218 – 207 BC: Italy, Sicily and Iberia
The Scipios in Iberia, 218 – 211 BC
218 – 215 BC
The Scipios in Iberia
Spring 215 BC
Ibera: the armies deploy
Spring 215 BC
Ibera: the centre gives way
Spring 215 BC
Ibera: the wings enveloped
212 – 211 BC
The Upper Baetis
Siege of Capua, 212 – 211 BC
216 – 212 BC
Capua
212 – 211 BC
The siege lines
211 BC
Hannibal attacks the lines
211 BC
The march on Rome
Siege of Syracuse, 213 – 212 BC
215 – 213 BC
Syracuse changes sides
213 BC
Archimedes against the assault
Spring 212 BC
The festival of Artemis
Summer and autumn 212 BC
The relief army and the plague
Autumn 212 BC
The fall of Achradina and Ortygia
Battle of New Carthage, 209 BC
Late 210 to early 209 BC
Scipio strikes at New Carthage
209 BC, morning
The first assault
209 BC, afternoon
Across the lagoon
209 BC
The city taken
209 to 208 BC
Baecula, and Hasdrubal leaves Iberia
Battle of the Metaurus, 207 BC
Spring to June 207 BC
Hasdrubal marches on Italy
June 207 BC, night
The second trumpet
June 207 BC, morning
The armies deploy
June 207 BC
Nero’s flank march
Summer 207 BC
Hasdrubal’s head
206 – 201 BC: Iberia and Africa
Battle of Ilipa, 206 BC
207 – 206 BC
The road to Ilipa
Spring 206 BC
Days of waiting
Spring 206 BC, dawn
The order reversed
Spring 206 BC
The wings broken
206 BC
The pursuit, and Iberia lost
Battle of the Great Plains, 203 BC
205 – 203 BC
Scipio lands in Africa
Spring 203 BC, night
The burning of the camps
203 BC
The battle on the Great Plains
203 BC
The Iberians surrounded
203 BC
Syphax and Sophonisba
Battle of Zama, 202 BC
203 – 202 BC
Hannibal returns to Africa
October 202 BC
The armies deploy
October 202 BC
The elephants and the cavalry
October 202 BC
The first two lines
October 202 BC
The last line
202 – 201 BC
The peace of 201 BC
201 – 149 BC: After Zama
196 – 183 BC
Hannibal in exile
201 – 150 BC
Masinissa and Cato
149 – 146 BC: The Third Punic War
Siege of Carthage, 149 – 146 BC
149 BC
Rome lands at Utica
149 – 148 BC
The first assaults
147 BC
Scipio takes command
147 BC
The mole and the new channel
Spring 146 BC
The assault from the harbour
Spring 146 BC
Six days to the Byrsa
After 146 BC: Epilogue
After 146 BC
The province of Africa
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