Most of these ex-soldiers have taken a rational ... mercenaries to conquer Thebes, while Carthage relied heavily on foreign fighters during the Punic Wars. In more recent times, mercenaries ...

His soldiers were overwhelmingly from the tropics and saw ... the Romans sent an army to North Africa, beginning the Third Punic War. Carthage withstood the Roman siege for two years before a change ...

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.

Hannibal Barca was born in 247 BCE in Carthage, an ancient city in Northern ... of Saguntum (in modern Spain), triggering the Second Punic War with Rome. Then came his cunning stratagem that ...

Children can be slaughtered more easily and without the mobilization of poorly trained soldiers ... prior to the Third Punic War, that “Carthago delenda est,” — “Carthage must be destroyed.” ...