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The siege of Carthage was the main engagement of the Third Punic War fought between Carthage and Rome. It consisted of the nearly three-year siege of the Carthaginian capital, Carthage (a little northeast of Tunis). In 149 BC, a large Roman army landed at Utica in North Africa.
Battle of Carthage (c. 149 BCE), in the Third Punic War; Battle of Carthage (238), in the revolt of Gordian II against the Roman emperor Maximinus Thrax; Battle of Carthage (439), Carthage was captured by the Vandals from the Western Roman Empire on 19 October 439; Battle of Carthage (533), also known as the Battle of Ad Decimum, between the ...
The siege of Hippo Regius (May 430 to July 431) ended unsuccessfully for the Vandals. Peace was made on 30 January 435 between the emperor Valentinian III and Gaiseric. The emperor was to retain Carthage and the small but rich proconsular province in which it was situated, while Hippo and the other six provinces of Africa were abandoned to the ...
They then pressed Syracuse, the only significant independent power on the island, into allying with them [74] and laid siege to Carthage's main base at Akragas on the south coast. [75] A Carthaginian army of 50,000 infantry, 6,000 cavalry and 60 elephants attempted to lift the siege in 262 BC, but was badly defeated at the battle of Akragas .
The Siege of Carthage occurred around Easter of 536, [1] [2] when dissatisfied Byzantine soldiers revolted against Solomon, the ruler of the Praetorian prefecture of Africa, because he refused to share with the soldiers the wealth that had been plundered from the Vandal Kingdom, which had been defeated two years prior in 534.
In 149 BC Carthage sent an army, under Hasdrubal, against Masinissa, the treaty notwithstanding. The campaign ended in disaster as the Battle of Oroscopa ended with a Carthaginian defeat and the surrender of the Carthaginian army. Anti-Carthaginian factions in Rome used the illicit military action as a pretext to prepare a punitive expedition.
Gordian I marched from Thysdrus to Carthage, where news of the rebellion was welcomed. [6] Capelianus led the only legion in Africa, Legio III Augusta, in battle against the two emperors. [7] The two armies met near Carthage. Gordian II personally led his army, consisting of militiamen without military training: he was defeated and killed.
Carthage appealed to Rome, which always backed its Numidian ally. [74] In 149 BC Carthage sent an army against Masinissa, the treaty notwithstanding. [75] This sparked the Third Punic War later that year. [76] Utica immediately went over to Rome and was used as a base for a Roman invasion of North Africa and a siege of Carthage. [77]