In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two ...
Rome and Carthage had been fighting for more than two decades. Rome’s victory in the skirmish, officially called the Battle of the Aegates, brought an end to the First Punic War, the initial ...
While Rome won the Second Punic War, it struck a fundamental blow to Rome’s martial manpower and military resolve. The ...
including his war elephants, across the Alps and had won several battles in Italy, even while Scipio, the younger of the two, was still rising through the Roman ranks. Rome’s senior commanders ...