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The First Punic War (264–241 BC) was the first of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the early 3rd century BC. For 23 years, in the longest continuous conflict and greatest naval war of antiquity, the two powers struggled for supremacy.
First Punic War (264–241 BCE), first of three wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian (Punic) empire that resulted in the destruction of Carthage. The First Punic War was fought to establish control over the strategic islands of Corsica and Sicily.
The First Punic War (264-241 BCE) was fought between Carthage and Rome largely over control of Sicily. The war was fought on the island, at sea, and in north Africa . Both sides enjoyed victories and suffered near-catastrophic defeats.
Punic Wars, (264–146 bce), a series of three wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian (Punic) empire, resulting in the destruction of Carthage, the enslavement of its population, and Roman hegemony over the western Mediterranean.
The Punic Wars were a series of wars between 264 and 146 BC fought between the Roman Republic and Ancient Carthage. Three wars took place, on both land and sea, across the western Mediterranean region and involved a total of forty-three years of warfare.
First Punic War (264-241 B.C.) In 264 B.C., Rome decided to intervene in a dispute on the western coast of the island of Sicily (then a Carthaginian province) involving an attack by...
What are the dates of the Punic Wars? The First Punic War: 264-241 BCE; The Second Punic War: 218-201 BCE; The Third Punic War: 149-146 BCE. What was the cause of the Punic Wars? The Punic Wars were caused by the competing interests of Carthage and Rome. Carthage controlled the Mediterranean and Rome was expanding, bringing the two into conflict.
First Punic War (264–241 BC) The seeds of the First Punic War had been sown in the 280s BC when a small band of unemployed Italian mercenaries, known as the Mamertines or the "Sons of Mars," occupied the strategic town of Messana in northeast Sicily.
Fought between Rome and Carthage over the course of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, the Punic Wars were a series of conflicts which raged across the western Mediterranean on both land and sea. They began in 264 BC as the interests of the two powers converged on the island of Sicily.
Timeline. 264 BCE. The Mamertines at Messana on Sicily call for Carthaginian and then Roman help in defence against Syracuse, sparking the First Punic War. 264 BCE - 241 BCE. First Punic War. Carthage cedes Sicily to Rome. c. 263 BCE. Antaros and 3000 Celts fight with Carthage in the First Punic War. 263 BCE.