In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two ...
While Rome won the Second Punic War, it struck a ... would continue as long as Carthage had access to the sea through their ...
The Roman general Scipio and Carthaginian Hannibal dueled with each other during the last years of the third century B.C., the final phase of what we now know as the Second Punic War.
Rome forced Carthage to surrender. But the fragile peace was short-lived: Over the next century, Rome would go on to fight a second and third war against the Punic people, winning each time.
No peace treaty ending the Third Punic War was ever signed. At the time it may have seemed superfluous, given the total destruction of Carthage, but in the 20th century someone brought up the fact ...