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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Battle of Tunis
Battle of the Lipari Islands Conflict First Punic war Date 260 BC Place Lipara harbour, in Sicily Result Carthaginian victory The Battle of the Lipari Islands or Lipara (Lipara harbour, 260 BC) was the first encounter between the fleets of Carthage and the Roman Republic, fought during the First Punic...
The Battle of Sulci was a naval battle fought in 258 BC between the Roman and Carthagenian navys of the coast near the town of Sulci.
Battle of Cape Ecnomus Conflict First Punic War Date 256 BC Place Offshore Cape Ecnomus, in Sicily Result Roman victory The battle of Cape Ecnomus (offshore Cape Ecnomus, southern coast of Sicily, 256 BC) was a naval battle between the fleets of Carthage and the Roman Republic, fought during the...
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 Battle of the Lipari Islands - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Lipari Islands Mylae Sulci Tyndaris – Cape Ecnomus – Adys – Tunis – Panormus Drepana – Lillybaeum - Siege of Drepana - Mt Ercte - 1st Mt Eryx - Raid of Tarentum - 2nd Mt Eryx - Aegates Islands
The Battle of the Lipari Islands or Lipara (Lipara harbour, 260 BC) was the first encounter between the fleets of Carthage and the Roman Republic, fought during the First Punic War.
Battle of the Lipari Islands, Prelude, The battle, Aftermath, References, Naval battles of the First Punic War and 260 BC.
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  Battle of Mylae
The battle of Mylae (offshore Mylae Sicily, 260 BC) was the first real naval battle between the fleets of Carthage and the Roman Republic, fought during the First Punic War.
The first episode of Roman naval warfare, the battle of the Lipari Islands, was not brilliant: consul Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina managed to loose his whole squadron of 17 ships to Carthage without a fight.
Shortly afterwards this small incident, the junior consul, Gaius Duilius, sailed with the rest of the fleet to meet the Carthaginians.
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 Roman Navy - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Battle of Tenedos, 86 BC – defeat of a Pontic fleet.
Battle of Naulochus, 36 BC – Octavian's fleet, under the command of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa defeated the forces of the rebel Sextus Pompeius.
Battle of the Hellespont, 323 – Flavius Iulius Crispus, son of Constantine I, defeated the naval forces of Licinius
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 Aeolian Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Aeolian Islands (Italian Isole Eolie) are a volcanic archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily.
The largest island is Lipari, and tourism marketing often names the entire archipelago the Lipari Islands because of the ease of pronouncing Lipari compared to Aeolian.
The islands were colonized by the Greeks around 580 BC.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Punic Wars
Combatants Roman Republic Carthage Commanders Gaius Sulpicius Paterculus The Battle of Sulci was a naval battle fought in 258 BC between the Roman and Carthagenian navys of the coast near the town of Sulci, in Sardinia.
Save for the disastrous defeat at the battle of Tunis in Africa, and the naval engagements of Lipari Islands and Drepana, the first Punic war was mostly an unbroken string of Roman victories.
The Battle of Numistro was fought in 210 BC between Hannibals army and a Roman army led by Marcus Claudius Marcellus.
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 Ancient Roman Navy - Crystalinks
The first few naval battles of the First Punic War were disasters for Rome, and it was not until the invention of the Corvus, a grappling engine which made it easier for Romans to board the Carthaginian vessels, that Rome was able to win the war.
This allowed the Romans to send their army to sea to board the attached enemy ships, avoiding the traditional battle tactics of ramming, in which they were far less experienced.Although the first sea engagement, the Battle of the Lipari Islands in 260 BC, was a defeat for Rome, the forces involved were relatively small.
It is not mentioned in period sources after the battle of Ecnomus and apparently the battle of the Aegates Islands that decided the first Punic war was won without them; however an evolution of the corvus, called arpax, was used in the battle of Naulochus.
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 Battle of Agrigentum - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
The battle of Agrigentum (Sicily, 261 BC) was the first pitched battle of the First Punic War and the first large-scale military confrontation between Carthaginians and the Republic of Rome.
The battle was fought after a long siege which started in 262 BC and resulted both in a Roman victory and the beginning of the Roman control of Sicily.
Following this battle (the first among four land pitched battles fought in the First Punic War), the Romans occupied Agrigentum and sold the whole population into slavery.
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 Aeolian Islands - Sicily - Welcome to Italy
In the year 304 the island was attacked by Agatocle who imposed a tribute of 50 talents, which he lost during the crossing towards Sicily owing to a storm attributed to the anger of Eolo.
Lipari was conquered by the Romans in 252 B.C. Razed to the ground by means of cruel slaughters, it lost with its in- dependence its economic prosperity and a period of severe decline began.
Lipari, fortified by Sesto Pompeo, was conquered in 36 B.C. by Agrippa, Admiral of Ottaviano who based his fleet on the island of Vulcano for the operations proceeding the naval battle of Milazzo and the subsequent landing in Sicily.
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 Aeolian Islands archipelago Sicily by BlueStone Tourism Services
Lipari was fought over by Octavian and Sextus Pompey, and it was conquered in 36 BC by Octavian's admiral, Agrippa.
Panarea is the smallest island of the archipelago.
Alicudi is one of the seven islands of the Aeolian Archipelagos.
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 Roman_Navy - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Battle of Tenedos, 86 BC – defeat of a Pontic fleet.
Battle of Naulochus, 36 BC – Octavian's fleet, under the command of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa defeated the forces of the rebel Sextus Pompeius.
Battle of the Hellespont, 323 – Flavius Julius Crispus, son of Constantine I, defeated the naval forces of Licinius
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 Aeolian Islands Information
The Aeolian Islands (Italian Isole Eolie) are a volcanic archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily.
The largest island is Lipari, and tourism marketing often names the entire archipelago the Lipari Islands because of the ease of pronouncing Lipari compared to Aeolian.
The islands were the site of the Battle of the Lipari Islands in 260 BC between Rome and Carthage.
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 Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While patrolling the waters of the Messina strait between Italy and Sicily with the first vessels, Scipio Asina received the information that Lipara, in the Lipari Islands, was about to change to the Roman side.
Although there was hardly any fighting, the encounter is known as the battle of the Lipari Islands.
Neither the humiliation, nor that he was the first Roman admiral to lose a battle, ended his career; in 254 BC, Scipio Asina was elected consul for the second time and, with his partner Aulus Atilius Caiatinus, succeeded in the conquest of Panormus.
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 Roman Navy: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 LIPARI ISLANDS,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lipari is the most important island of the group.
The islands were settled by the Greeks in the 6th century bc.
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 Battle of the Lipari Islands - TheBestLinks.com - Battle of the Lipara Islands, Consul, Carthage, First Punic War, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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The battle of the Lipari Islands or Lipara (Lipara harbour, 260 BC) was the first encounter between the fleets of Carthage and the Roman Republic, fought during the First Punic War.
Shortly afterwards, the junior consul Gaius Duilius in front of the rest of the fleet, avenged the humiliation by wining the battle of Mylae.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sicily
married (1392) Martin, son of Martin of Momblanco, son of Peter IV of Aragon; in 1409 the kingdom passed by inheritance to the elder Martin, and thus the island was united to the Kingdom of Aragon and ruled by a viceroy.
Colonna to conquer the island, and incursions of the Turks.
Austrians to re-establish the authority of Ferdinand I in the island.
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 CalendarHome.com - First Punic War - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Following several naval battles, Rome was aiming for a quick end to hostilities and decided to invade the Carthaginian colonies of Africa, to force the enemy to accept terms.
Instead of maneuvering to ram, which was the standard naval tactic at the time, corvus equipped ships would maneuver alongside the enemy vessel, deploy the bridge which would attach to the enemy ship through spikes on the end of the bridge, and send legionnaires across as boarding parties.
The new weapon's efficiency was first proved in the battle of Mylae, the first Roman naval victory, and continued to prove its value in the following years, especially in the huge Battle of Ecnomus.
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 Battle of Mylae: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
After the conquest of Agrigentum (conquest of Agrigentum: the battle of agrigentum (sicily, 261 bc) was the first pitched battle of the first...
The first episode of Roman naval warfare, the battle of the Lipari Islands (battle of the Lipari Islands: the battle of the lipari islands or lipara (lipara harbour, 260 bc) was the...
The consul celebrated a Roman triumph (Roman triumph: a roman triumph was a civil ceremony and religious rite of ancient rome, held to...
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 CalendarHome.com - Battle of the Aegates Islands - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Battle of the Aegates Islands or Aegusa (Aegadian Islands, off the western coast of the island of Sicily, 10 March 241 BC) was the final naval battle fought between the fleets of Carthage and the Roman Republic during the First Punic War.
Rome lacked a fleet — the ships it had possessed at the beginning of the war had been largely destroyed in the Battle of Drepana and in the storm that followed — Carthage, however, took little advantage of this situation.
The Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca was slow to complete his advantage on the island and, probably due to this, from 242 BC Rome eventually decided to build another fleet and regain naval supremacy.
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 Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina - Definition, explanation
While patrolling the waters of the Messina strait between Italy and Sicily with the first vessels, Scipio Asina received the information that Lipara, in the Lipari Islands, was about to change to the Roman side.
Although there was hardly any fighting, the encounter is known as the battle of the Lipari Islands.
Neither the humiliation, nor that he was the first Roman admiral to lose a battle, ended his career; in 254 BC, Scipio Asina was elected consul for the second time and, with his partner Aulus Atilius Caiatinus, succeeded in the conquest of Panormus.
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 Sicily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The island is triangular, with the northeast point near Italy, a mere two miles across the Strait of Messina between the cities of Messina in Sicily and Rhegium in Italy.
The middle of the island is a series of broken hills, rather rugged to the north and east, becoming gentle rolling hills to the west.
Among the adjacent islands are the Lipari group (Aeolian Islands) and Ustica in the Tyrrhenian sea; the Egadi and the Formiche (Ants) near the western extremity; Pantelleria between Malta and Tunisia.
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 Gaius Duilius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As junior partner of the patrician Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina, Duilius was given the command of the rear fleet, not expected to see much action.
However, the ingenuity of Scipio Asina got him captured in the battle of the Lipari Islands, leaving Duilius as senior commander.
The following battle of Mylae was a stunning victory for Rome, mainly due to the use of the corvus boarding device.
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 BlueStone Tourism Services in Sicily - Sicily History & Highlights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The principal islands are Lipari, Salina, Filicudi, Alicudi, Stromboli, Panarea and Vulcano.
Lipari, in particular, has a number of hotels and restaurants, but book very early if you're planning a seaside holiday here, because in August this island can be quite crowded.
The island was inhabited by Romans and Arab populations.
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 Roman Navy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
* battle of the Eurymedon, 190 BC – Roman forces under Lucius Aemilius Regillus defeat a Seleucid fleet commanded by Hannibal, fighting his last battle.
battle of Naulochus, 36 BC – Octavian's fleet, under the command of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa defeats the forces of the rebel Pompey.
battle of the Hellespont, 323 – Flavius Julius Crispus, son of Constantine defeats the naval forces of Licinius
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