One side in this war used the town of Erbessus as a quickly-captured supply dump.
One side in this war used the town of Erbessus as a quickly-captured supply dump. During this war, Boodes captured a first-time naval commander. Its losers refused riotously harsh peace terms after a rout at Adys; those terms came from this war's winning general at Cape Ecnomus, the eventual prisoner Marcus Atilius Regulus. As recorded in the first of forty books in Polybius's Histories, this war's winners used a device called the raven, or corvus, to board enemy ships at Mylae. It began when the Mamertines asked both sides for aid against Hiero II, while the losers fought their own mercenaries afterwards. The truce ending this war broke with the siege of Saguntum. For 10 points, name this war fought mainly in Sicily that made Hamilcar Barca's name, in which Rome first fought its southerly rival Carthage.
One side in this war used the town of Erbessus as a quickly-captured supply dump.
First Punic War [prompt "Punic Wars," do not accept "Second" or "Third" Punic War]