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Syracuse in Antiquity: History and Topography: Chapter 4: "The Four Great Sieges of Syracuse". University of South Africa Press. Govan, K. (2016) "Fortifications of Syracuse: Dionysius I, 405 to 396 BCE". University of Oregon Thesis. (Contains maps) Hoyos, Dexter (2015). Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
A full-scale civil war between Arabs and Berbers erupted in 898, and was not ended until Ibrahim II's son Abu'l-Abbas Abdallah captured Palermo in 900. [20] Abdallah also won victories against the Byzantines, until he was recalled to Ifriqiya to replace his father; Ibrahim then came to Sicily with a group of volunteers, and captured the last ...
The siege of Syracuse from 344 to 343/342 BC was part of a war between the Syracusan general Hicetas and the tyrant of Syracuse, Dionysius II. The conflict became more complex when Carthage and Corinth became involved. The Carthaginians had made an alliance with Hicetas to expand their power in Sicily.
The Punic war-fleet, made up of 250 triremes and captured Greek quinqueremes, sailed into the Great Harbour at the same time and in perfect order sailed past Syracuse, displaying the spoils captured from the Greeks. 2000–3000 transports then moored in the harbour, bringing in soldiers and supplies. Himilco was ready to begin the siege.
Siege of Syracuse in 212 BC, between the city of Syracuse, and a Roman army under Marcellus sent to put down the city's uprising. The battle that Archimedes held off for two years and the battle that killed Archimedes; Battle of Syracuse (1710), a naval battle in the War of the Spanish Succession between French and British fleets.
Siege of Syracuse (415–413 BC), during the Sicilian Expedition; By, or in league with, the Carthaginians: Siege of Syracuse (397 BC) Siege of Syracuse (343 BC) Siege of Syracuse (311–309 BC) Siege of Syracuse (278 BC) By the Roman Republic: Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC), during the Second Punic War against Carthage; By the Arab Aghlabid ...
World War I and World War II are indicated by bold black lines behind the streams with a thickness determined by their duration. Numerous insets remark the discovery of significant inventions such as Galileo Galilei with the pendulum and the telescope , Johannes Gutenberg with the printing press , James Watt with his improved steam engine , and ...
The siege of Syracuse in 278 BC was the last attempt of Carthage to conquer the city of Syracuse. Syracuse was weakened by a civil war between Thoenon and Sostratus. The Carthaginians used this opportunity to attack and besiege Syracuse both by land and sea. Thoenon and Sostratus then appealed to king Pyrrhus of Epirus to come to the aid of ...