Wars and Battles

If you do not wish to fight, you are permitted to flee. (Seneca, De Providentia 6.7 )

387 (or 390, 364)Allia

Pyrrhic War


279 Asculum

First Punic War


263Messana262/1Agrigentum
260Lipari Islands, Mylae256Cape Ecnomus
255Tunis, Cape Hermaeum254Panormus
249Drepanum242Aegates Islands
241Lilybaeum239Bagradas River

Eryce : Carthage's 'Truceless' War

The Battle of Telamon, 225 BC

Illyrian Wars



Battles of the Second Punic War


YearItaly SpainSicily/Africa
219 Saguntum
218Trebbia | River TicinusCissa
217Trasimeno Ebro
216The Battle of Cannae - Silva Litani - Capua
215 Dertosa (Dertosia) Syracuse
214 Acre Leuce
213
212Tarentum , HerdoneaSaguntumSyracuse
211 Castulo | Ilorca
210Numistro , Herdonea
209CanusiumCarthago Nova
208 Baecula (Bailen)
207Metaurus
206 Ilipa
203 Bagradas Plain | Cirta
202Zama



First Macedonian War (211-205 BC)

Second Macedonian War (200-196 BC) | Battle of Cynocephalae, 197 BC |

The Syrian War | Battle of Thermopylae, 191 BC | Battle of Magnesia, 190 BC

Third Macedonian War (171-168 BC) | Battle of Pydna, 168 BC

Lusitanian War, 154-138 BC

The Fourth Macedonian War (149-148 BC)

Third Punic War


Numantine (Celt-Iberian) War, 143-133 BC

Defeat of the Gauls, 121 BC



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