Hannibal is definitely the most exciting figure of the Punic Wars. The son of a great warlord, Hamilcar Barca, also a brother and son-in-law of other great Carthaginian warlords, Hannibal swears from his childhood to fight with Rome. Hannibal is one of the greatest military leaders in all of history. He was brave, with brilliant tactical ability, resourceful, cunning, insanely brave, ruthless, and most often successful. He usually attracted Roman troops to a battlefield of his choice.
In the battle of Lake Trebia, for example, a whole Roman army was trapped. In the Battle of Cannae , he succeeded flanking the Roman army from both sides as if it came from the pages of a military textbook. In this battle alone, he killed over 40, Romans. Whether through bribery or threats, diplomacy or intimidation, cavalry raids or prepared battles, Hannibal is well versed in the art of war. Years after the Punic Wars, Scipio Africanus the only Roman who really defeated Hannibal on the battlefield asked Hannibal who he thinks are the greatest warlords in history.
Hannibal gave the first place to Alexander the Great, the second, to the king of Epirus Pyrrhus, who invaded Italy in BC, and the third to himself. By sending its troops, Rome started the First Punic War. Initially, battles took place on land and the Roman legions crushed the Carthaginians.
In the second phase of the war, the Carthaginians concentrated their actions mainly at sea, because they assumed that their superiority was palpable there. They managed to inflict a lot of damage on Rome. Then Rome innovated in its newly formed fleet with a bridge that connected the two ships and allowed the soldiers to storm the enemy. This reversed the course of the war. The Third Punic War was the shortest of the three wars and was also the final chapter in the competitive nature between an old and powerful Empire in Carthage and a new and blossoming Empire in the Romans.
This war happened between BC and BC. The patricians were only a small percentage of the Roman population, but they held all the power. All the other citizens of Rome were Plebeians. Plebeians were the farmers, craftsmen, laborers, and soldiers of Rome. In the early stages of Rome, the plebeians had few rights. Both empires wanted to take control of Sicily and Corsica, the perfect trading spot in all of the Mediterranean.
It resulted in the destruction of Carthage. The Romans forced them to leave Sicily, return all captured Romans, pay a huge amount of money, and keep their quinqueremes out of the Roman waters. The immediate cause of the war was the issue of control of the independent Sicilian city state of Messana modern Messina. Battle of Carthage, bce. The destruction of Carthage was an act of Roman aggression prompted as much by motives of revenge for earlier wars as by greed for the rich farming lands around the city.
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