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Battle of Panormus
The Battle of Panormus was a 250 BC Roman victory in the First Punic War near Palermo, Sicily, where Metellus defeated Hasdrubal and captured war elephants.
Battle of Petelia
The Battle of Petelia was an ambush Hannibal set for an unscouted Roman column under the hill of Petelia, in Bruttium, in 208 BC during the Second Punic War.
Battle of Phintias
The Battle of Phintias was a Carthaginian naval attack on a Roman fleet sheltering at Phintias, a city on Sicily's south coast, in 249 BC during the First Punic War.
Battle of Placentia (217 BC)
The Battle of Placentia in 217 BC was a near-draw between Hannibal's Carthaginian army and Roman forces under consul Sempronius near Placentia in the Po valley.
Battle of Silva Litana
The Battle of Silva Litana was a 216 BC ambush in Cisalpine Gaul during the Second Punic War, in which the Boii annihilated a Roman army of about 25,000 men.
Battle of Sulci
The Battle of Sulci was a naval battle of the First Punic War fought in 258 BC off Sulci in western Sardinia, won by a Roman fleet.
Battle of Tarentum (209 BC)
The Battle of Tarentum in 209 BC was the recapture of Tarentum from Carthage by the Roman consul Quintus Fabius Maximus in the Second Punic War.
Battle of the Aegates Islands
The Battle of the Aegates Islands, also called the Battle of Aegusa, was a naval battle off western Sicily in 241 BC that ended the First Punic War.
Battle of the Bagradas River (240 BC)
The Battle of the Bagradas River (240 BC) was a Carthaginian victory in which Hamilcar Barca defeated a rebel mercenary army under Spendius during the Mercenary War.
Battle of the Great Plains
The Battle of the Great Plains, also called the Battle of the Campi Magni, was fought in 203 BC in Tunisia, where Scipio Africanus defeated Hasdrubal Gisco and Syphax.
Battle of the Lipari Islands
The Battle of the Lipari Islands, also called the Battle of Lipara, was a small Carthaginian naval victory over Rome in 260 BC during the First Punic War.
Battle of the Metaurus
The Battle of the Metaurus (207 BC) was a Second Punic War battle in which Roman consuls Nero and Livius Salinator destroyed Hasdrubal Barca's invading Carthaginian army.
Battle of the Port of Carthage
The Battle of the Port of Carthage was a 147 BC naval sortie from Carthage's military harbor against Scipio Aemilianus's fleet during the Third Punic War.
Battle of the Rhone crossing
The Battle of the Rhone crossing, or Hannibal's crossing of the Rhone, was his 218 BC forced passage of the river in Gaul against Volcae resistance.
Battle of the Saw
The Battle of the Saw was a battle of the Mercenary War in 238 BC, where Hamilcar Barca trapped and destroyed a rebel mercenary army under Spendius.
Battle of the Silarus
The Battle of the Silarus was a 212 BC Second Punic War engagement near the Silarus river in Lucania, where Hannibal destroyed a Roman army.
Battle of the Tagus (220 BC)
The Battle of the Tagus was a 220 BC battle in which Hannibal's Carthaginian army defeated a Carpetani-led tribal coalition on the Tagus river in Hispania.
Battle of the Ticinus
The Battle of the Ticinus was a November 218 BC cavalry clash in northern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Roman consul Scipio, the first fight of the Second Punic War on Italian soil.
Battle of the Trebia
The Battle of the Trebia, also called the Battle of the Trebbia, was Hannibal's first major pitched victory over Rome in Italy, fought in December 218 BC.
Battle of the Upper Baetis
The Battle of the Upper Baetis, or Battle of Castulo and Ilorca, was a Carthaginian victory in Spain in 211 BC that killed both Scipio brothers.
Battle of Thermae
The Battle of Thermae was a First Punic War battle in 259 BC, in which a Carthaginian army under Hamilcar defeated Roman allied forces in Sicily.
Battle of Tunis (255 BC)
The Battle of Tunis (255 BC), also called the Battle of the Bagradas, was a battle in which Carthage, led by Xanthippus, destroyed the Roman army and captured Regulus.
Battle of Tyndaris
The Battle of Tyndaris was a naval battle of the First Punic War fought in 257 BC off Tyndaris on Sicily's north coast, where Rome's consul Gaius Atilius Regulus defeated a Carthaginian fleet.
Battle of Utica (203 BC)
The Battle of Utica in 203 BC was a night attack in which Scipio Africanus destroyed the fortified camps of Hasdrubal Gisco and Syphax near Utica.
Battle of Utica (Mercenary War)
The Battle of Utica, fought in early 240 BC during the Mercenary War, saw Hanno the Great's Carthaginian army drive rebels from their camp, then lose to their counterattack.
Battle of Victumulae
The Battle of Victumulae was a Carthaginian victory over Roman forces near Placentia in Cisalpine Gaul, fought in the winter after the Battle of the Trebia in 218 BC.
Battle of Zama
Battle of Zama (202 BCE), final engagement of the Second Punic War, where Scipio Africanus defeated Hannibal in North Africa, countering 80 war elephants with lane formations and cavalry under Laelius and Masinissa.
Battle with Naravas
The Battle with Naravas was a 240 BC engagement of the Mercenary War in which Naravas defected to Hamilcar Barca with 2,000 Numidian horsemen, defeating the rebels.
Capture of New Carthage (209 BC)
The capture of New Carthage, or Battle of New Carthage, was the taking of Carthago Nova by Scipio in 209 BC during the Second Punic War.
Capture of Tarentum (212 BC)
The capture of Tarentum was Hannibal's seizure of the southern Italian city by treachery in 212 BC during the Second Punic War, though the Roman garrison held the citadel.