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The Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC) was the second of three wars fought between Carthage and Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC. For 17 years the two states struggled for supremacy, primarily in Italy and Iberia, but also on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia and, towards the end of the war, in North Africa.
The battle is mainly remembered today because it triggered one of the most important wars of antiquity, the Second Punic War. Hannibal's plans After ...
This is an incomplete list of battles of the Second Punic War, showing the battles on the Italian peninsula and some in Africa, in Sicily and Hispania. List 218 BC ...
Hannibal had picked 8,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry as a strike force to take the city. He marched them to Tarentum stealthily. Philemenus then led 1,000 Libyan soldiers from Hannibal's strike force towards a gate he habitually used for hunting trips, whilst Hannibal himself marched the rest of the infantry towards the Temenid Gate.
The Battle of Cannae (/ ˈ k æ n i,-eɪ,-aɪ /; [c] Latin: [ˈkanːae̯]) was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 BC near the ancient village of Cannae in Apulia, southeast Italy.
The Punic Wars were a series of three wars between 264 and 146 BC fought by the states of Rome and Carthage.All three were won by Rome. The First Punic War broke out in Sicily in 264 BC and lasted 23 years, until 241 BC, when after immense materiel and human losses on both sides the Carthaginians were defeated.
The Battle of Tarentum of 209 BC took place during the Second Punic War. The Romans, led by Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, recaptured the city of Tarentum that had betrayed them in the first Battle of Tarentum in 212 BC. This time the commander of the city, Carthalo, turned against the Carthaginians, and supported the Romans.
Zama, also known as Xama, is a town in Tunisia best known for its association with the Battle of Zama, in which Scipio Africanus defeated Hannibal on 19 October in 202 BC, ending the Second Punic War. The Battle of Zama was a victory for the Roman Republic and diminished the power of Ancient Carthage.