89.Red sea and Indian Ocean in Antiquity

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88.Eryx

 Nowadays it is called Erice on the westcoast of Sicily. Hamilcar resisted the Romans on this mountain from 244 to 241 BC.
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87.Heircte

 Hamilcar resisted the Romans from 247-244 BC on this mountain.

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85.Kamarina

 Sea-actions in 249 BC

The Roman fleet perishes hundreds of ships in a huge storm. The Carthaginian fleet fled in time in safe harbours.

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83.the battle of Drepana 249 BC

 Adirbaal (Adherbal) wins a sea-battle in 249 BC over the Romans .

The Romans lose c.200 ships.

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81.Lilybaion.

For about a decade the Romans tried to enter Lilybaeum, but they did not succeed. Only at the end of the 1st Punic war Carthage was obliged to give the town to the Romans.

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80.Mars van de olifanten.

Metellus won in front of Panormus a battle against an army of elephants.

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79.Disaster-voyages of the Roman fleet.

 Nature was on the side of the Carthaginians in this period.

Hundreds of ships got lost in the years 255-253 BC and with them thousands of people.

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77.Regulus in Africa

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76.De zeeoorlog

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75.strijd op Sicilia

74.strijd om Akragas

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73.Romeinen komen naar Sicilia

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72.Het Carthaagse rijk

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72.Sicilia 289-279

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