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Barcid conquest of Iberia
The Barcid conquest of Iberia, also known as the Carthaginian conquest of Spain, was Carthage's conquest of southern and eastern Iberia between 237 and 219 BC, led by Hamilcar Barca and Hannibal.
Battle of Adys
The Battle of Adys was a Roman victory under Marcus Atilius Regulus over a Carthaginian army near Adys in Tunisia in 256 BC, during the First Punic War.
Battle of Ager Falernus
The Battle of Ager Falernus was a blockade in late 217 BC, when Fabius Maximus trapped Hannibal in Campania and Hannibal escaped at night using burning oxen.
Battle of Agrigentum
The Battle of Agrigentum, also called the Battle of Acragas or Siege of Agrigentum, was the Roman siege of the Carthaginian stronghold of Akragas in Sicily in 262 BC.
Battle of Baecula
The Battle of Baecula was a battle of the Second Punic War in 208 BC, where Scipio defeated but failed to destroy Hasdrubal Barca's army in Hispania.
Battle of Beneventum (212 BC)
The Battle of Beneventum in 212 BC was a Second Punic War engagement in which the consul Quintus Fulvius Flaccus stormed Hanno's camp at Beneventum.
Battle of Beneventum (214 BC)
The Battle of Beneventum (214 BC), or First Battle of Beneventum, was a Second Punic War battle where Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus destroyed Hanno's Carthaginian force.
Battle of Canusium
The Battle of Canusium was an indecisive 209 BC engagement between Hannibal's Carthaginian army and Roman forces under Marcellus in Apulia, during the Second Punic War.
Battle of Cape Ecnomus
The Battle of Cape Ecnomus, or Battle of Ecnomus, was a naval battle of 256 BC in which Rome defeated a Carthaginian fleet off southern Sicily.
Battle of Cape Hermaeum
The Battle of Cape Hermaeum, also called the Battle of Cape Bon, was a naval battle of the First Punic War fought in 255 BC off North Africa.
Battle of Cirta
The Battle of Cirta was fought in 203 BC near Cirta, Algeria, where the Roman officer Gaius Laelius and Masinissa defeated and captured the Numidian king Syphax.
Battle of Cissa
The Battle of Cissa was a land battle of the Second Punic War fought in 218 BC near Tarraco, where Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio defeated a Carthaginian force under Hanno.
Battle of Crotona
The Battle of Crotona was a 204 BC encounter in Bruttium, southern Italy, between Hannibal's Carthaginian army and Roman forces under the consul Publius Sempronius Tuditanus.
Battle of Decimomannu
The Battle of Decimomannu was a Roman victory over a Carthaginian force and a Sardinian revolt near Cagliari in 215 BC, during the Second Punic War.
Battle of Dertosa
The Battle of Dertosa, also called the Battle of Ibera, was a Second Punic War battle fought in 215 BC in Spain, where the Scipio brothers defeated Hasdrubal Barca.
Battle of Drepana
The Battle of Drepana, also called the Battle of Drepanum, was a 249 BC naval battle in which Carthage under Adherbal destroyed most of a larger Roman fleet during the First Punic War.
Battle of Geronium
The Battle of Geronium was an autumn 217 BC engagement in Apulia where Hannibal repulsed a Roman force under Minucius Rufus, rescued by Fabius Maximus.
Battle of Grumentum
The Battle of Grumentum was a 207 BC engagement in Lucania, southern Italy, between Hannibal and the Roman consul Gaius Claudius Nero, ending in a small Roman victory.
Battle of Herdonia (210 BC)
The Battle of Herdonia (210 BC), also called the Second Battle of Herdonia, was Hannibal's defeat of a Roman army under Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus in Apulia.
Battle of Herdonia (212 BC)
The Battle of Herdonia (212 BC), or First Battle of Herdonia, was a Second Punic War battle where Hannibal destroyed a Roman army under Gnaeus Fulvius Flaccus at Herdonia, Apulia.
Battle of Ilipa
The Battle of Ilipa was fought in 206 BC near the Baetis river in Hispania, where Scipio's Roman army defeated Hasdrubal Gisco and Mago, ending Carthaginian power in Spain.
Battle of Lake Trasimene
Battle of Lake Trasimene (Battle of Trasimene, Trasumennus), ambush fought 24 June 217 BC in the Second Punic War, where Hannibal annihilated consul Gaius Flaminius's army of about 15,000 dead on Lake Trasimene's north shore.
Battle of Lake Tunis
Fought in 147 BC, the Battle of Lake Tunis saw a Carthaginian fleet engage the Roman blockade until ships jammed the harbor entrance.
Battle of Leptis (Mercenary War)
The Battle of Leptis in 238 BC was the final battle of the Mercenary War, in which Carthage destroyed the rebel army and captured Mathos.
Battle of Lilybaeum
The Battle of Lilybaeum was a naval battle off western Sicily in 218 BC, the first of the Second Punic War, won by a Roman squadron under Marcus Aemilius.
Battle of Messana (264 BC)
The Battle of Messana, also called the Siege of Messana, was fought in 264 BC at Messana in northeast Sicily, the opening clash of the First Punic War.
Battle of Mylae
The Battle of Mylae was a naval battle fought in 260 BC off northern Sicily, where Rome under Gaius Duilius won its first major naval victory over Carthage.
Battle of Nepheris
The Battle of Nepheris (147–146 BC) was the destruction by Scipio Aemilianus of Carthage's last field army at Nepheris south of Carthage, before the city fell in 146 BC.
Battle of Nola (216 BC)
The Battle of Nola (216 BC), the first of three battles at Nola, was an engagement in which Marcellus repulsed Hannibal's army at Nola in Campania, southern Italy.
Battle of Numistro
The Battle of Numistro was an indecisive 210 BC engagement between Hannibal and the Roman consul Marcellus near Numistro in Lucania, during the Second Punic War.