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, meanwhile, was ascendant. After their pyrrhic victory over Hannibal ... who helped Rome in the final battle of the ...
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. “It was very costly, both in terms of ...
and Warmongers in the Roman Senate finally prodded Rome into the Third Punic War. Unlike the previous two wars, which involved much maneuvering and pitched battles (the Second Punic War saw the ...