First Punic War | Wikipedia audio article
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First Punic War


00:02:02 1 Name
00:02:30 2 Background
00:02:38 2.1 Rome
00:03:28 2.2 Carthage
00:04:20 2.3 North African peoples
00:04:45 2.4 Greek colonists
00:05:23 3 Beginning
00:07:47 4 Roman landing and advance to Syracuse
00:09:36 5 Carthage prepares for war
00:10:22 6 Battle of Agrigentum
00:11:26 7 Rome builds a fleet
00:11:56 7.1 Origin of Roman design
00:12:52 7.2 The corvus
00:14:00 8 Battle of Mylae
00:15:35 9 Hamilcar's counter-attack
00:16:29 10 Battles in Sardinia and Corsica
00:17:14 11 Continued Roman advance
00:17:44 12 Invasion of Africa
00:18:21 12.1 Battle of Cape Ecnomus
00:18:49 12.2 Regulus's raid
00:19:44 13 Carthage's respite
00:20:21 14 Renewed Roman offensive
00:20:44 14.1 Initial failure
00:21:09 14.2 Northern advance
00:21:49 14.3 Northwestern expedition
00:23:00 15 Conclusion
00:23:08 15.1 Stalemate in Sicily
00:23:45 15.2 Battle of the Aegates Islands
00:24:46 16 Role of naval warfare
00:26:14 17 Aftermath
00:27:01 17.1 Casualties
00:28:01 17.2 Peace terms
00:29:26 17.3 Political results
00:31:32 18 Notable leaders
00:32:36 19 Chronology



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The First Punic War (264 to 241 BC) was the first of three wars fought between Ancient Carthage and the Roman Republic, the two great powers of the Western Mediterranean. For 23 years, in the longest continuous conflict and greatest naval war of antiquity, the two powers struggled for supremacy, primarily on the Mediterranean island of Sicily and its surrounding waters, and also in North Africa.
The war began in 264 BC with the Roman conquest of the Carthaginian-controlled city of Messina in Sicily, granting Rome a military foothold on the island. The Romans built up a navy to challenge Carthage, the greatest naval power in the Mediterranean, for control over the waters around Sicily. In naval battles and storms, 700 Roman and 500 Carthaginian quinqueremes were lost, along with hundreds of thousands of lives. Command of the sea was won and lost by both sides repeatedly. A Roman invasion of Carthaginian Africa was destroyed in battle at the Bagradas and the Roman consul Marcus Atilius Regulus was captured by the Carthaginians in 255. In 23 years, the Romans slowly conquered Sicily and drove the Carthaginians to the west end of the island.
After both sides had been brought to a state of near exhaustion, the Romans mobilized their citizenry's private wealth and created a new fleet under consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus. The Carthaginian fleet was destroyed at the Aegates Islands in 241, forcing the cut-off Carthaginian troops on Sicily to give up. A peace treaty was signed in which Carthage was made to pay a heavy indemnity and Rome ejected Carthage from Sicily, annexing the island as a Roman province.
The war was followed by a failed revolt against the Carthaginian Empire. The Romans exploited Carthage's weakness to seize the Carthaginian possessions of Sardinia and Corsica in violation of the peace treaty. The unresolved strategic competition between Rome and Carthage would lead to the eruption of the Second Punic War in 218 BC.