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  Second Punic War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Second Punic War, fought between Carthage and the Roman Republic from 218-202 BC, was the final major Carthaginian military opposition to Rome's dominence in the Mediterranean.
Livy's analysis of the causes of the Second Punic War
Outbreak of the War of the Allies in Greece.
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 First Macedonian War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The First Macedonian War ( 215 BC - 205 BC) was fought by Rome, allied (after 211 BC) with the Aetolian League and Attalus I of Pergamon, against Philip V of Macedon, contemporaneously with the Second Punic War against Carthage.
However, in 219 BC, during the Second Illyrian War he was defeated by the Romans and fled to the court of Philip.
The Roman strategy of encumbering Philip with a war among Greeks in Greece was succeeding, so much so that when Laevinus went to Rome to take up his consulship, he was able to report that the legion deployed against Philip could be safely withdrawn.
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 War
Civil War of Albany and Cornwall The Civil War of Albany and Cornwall was a legendary war in Geoffrey of Monmouth.
One-Year War In the Gundam 0083, with the 'nazification' of the Zeons.
Spanish Civil War, 1820-1823 Spanish Civil War 1820-23 was fought in the Aftermath of the France interventing on the sid...
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 From City to Empire
The Second Samnite War, Rome is victorious despite of a humiliating defeat at the Caudine Passes 321 BC, and annex Campania.
The Second Illyrian War, Rome conquers a foothold on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea.
The Third Punic War ends with the destruction of the city Carthage and the complete conquest of the country, which is transformed into the Roman province of Africa.
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195 BC - (Spanish Wars) The Spanish insurrections in the Roman province by the Turdetani with Celtiberian mercenaries are defeated by a consular army under one of the consuls M. Porcius Cato.
83 BC - (Second Mithridatic War) 82 BC - The consuls are Gn.
57 BC - (Gallic Wars) G. Julius Caesar is threatened by a coalition of all the Belgic tribes except the Remi, at the so-called Battle of the Aisne.
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 The Story
The second Illyrian war in 219 B.C. pitted the rebellious Demetrius against the Romans, The Romans re-invaded Illyria and drove Demetrius from the country.
By the second half of the fourteenth century, the Venetians had developed more control over these colonies and were able to implement their plan to its fullest.
The reason for the wars are too numerous to mention but most were based on trading rights and the ability of each side to control their trading privileges.
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 k2t.org - Thornton's Freehold - Kit and Kathleen Thornton welcome you.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
·   482-474 BC — The Roman and Veii War.
This poses a setback in the Social War for Rome.
The doors of the Temple of Janus are closed to officially end the war.
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 The Illyrian Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
These were the native ships of the piratical Illyrians, had wider beams than typical warships of the day, and lacked rams.
In 230 BC the Illyrian pirates stepped up their attacks on Italian merchants, and repeated protests by the latter brought the matter to the attention of the Roman Senate.
Encouraged by the threats posed to Rome by Hannibal and the Gauls, the Illyrian Demetrius of Pharos raised a fleet of 90 lembi and sailed south of Lissus, in violation of the treaty.
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 The Roman Navy: The First and Second Illyrian Wars, and incidental operations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Illyrian pirates stepped up their attacks on Italian merchants, and repeated protests by the latter brought the matter to the attention of the Roman Senate.
Thiel presents the case that the Senate had not ignored the piratical practices of the Illyrians because of their own indifference, but rather because they were hamstrung without the approval of the comitia centuriata.
After this, the First Illyrian war, the Romans had to contend with a major invasion of the Gauls, which they successfully drove off.
www.sas.upenn.edu /~dpd/roman_navy/illyrian.html   (1067 words)

  
 Ancient Rome - Punic Wars
The first Punic war was fought to establish control over the strategic islands of Corsica and Sicily.
A second Roman fleet sailed in 256 and established a beachhead on the African continent.
Punic War, Second (218-201 BC), also called SECOND CARTHAGINIAN WAR, second in a series of wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian (Punic) Empire that resulted in Roman hegemony over the western Mediterranean.
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 Hannibal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Since Rome was occupied with the Second Illyrian War and was consequently unable to support the town, Saguntum fell after a blockade of eight months.
In July, the Romans pinned down the Carthaginian army in the neighborhood of Cannae, and battle was engaged on the second of August.
In this Syrian War, Hannibal advised the Syrians to invade Italy.
www.cs.uh.edu /~clifton/hannibal.html   (1625 words)

  
 First Illyrian War
The result of the Illyrian War, while minor in comparison to other conflicts, had a direct impact on future relations with Macedonia and Carthage.
Removing the Illyrian piracy threat from the Adriatic greatly improved Roman relations with the Greeks of Corcyra, Epidamnus and Appollonia as well as the whole state of Achaea.
Aetolia was bounded on the west by Acarnania, from which it was separated by the river Achelous; on the north by Epirus and Thessaly; on the east by the Ozolian Locrians; and on the south by the entrance to the Corinthian Gulf.
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 Second Illyrian War
With diversionary tactics in the harbor, Aemilius lured the Illyrians out of their encampment while landing the main force behind Pharos.
While Rome managed to clear the Adriatic of Illyrian pirates once more, and strengthen its hold on the coastal region of Illyricum, little else could be accomplished.
While Rome was occupied with the Second Illyrian War, Hannibal besieged Saguntum, a Roman ally.
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 Serbian state in Zeta (X - XV c.)
The Romans fought during the First Illyrian War (229-228 BC) and the Second Illyrian War (219) against the Ardijejis.
When Vukan engaged in a war with his brother and St Sava reconciled them, the unity of Zeta and Raska was resorted.
The Despot's second army suffered defeat, thus Stefan Crnojevic expanded his lands to the River Moraca and in 1453 retrieved Mt Zabljak, areas surrounding the rivers Zeta and Moraca and the surrounding area of Podgorica.
www.njegos.org /mnhistory/histzeta.htm   (3994 words)

  
 Hasdrubal
This war was fought to compensate for the loss of Sicily, which had been conquered by the Romans in the First Punic War (264-241).
Hasdrubal's brother Mago commanded a second army, and a nobleman named Hasdrubal, son of Gesco, commanded a third force.
This was the end of the war in Iberia, which became a Roman province.
www.livius.org /ha-hd/hasdrubal/hasdrubal3.html   (1258 words)

  
 Roman Military History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lazenby, J.F., "The Conference at Luca and the Gallic War," Latomus 18 (1959) pp.
Herr, M.D., “The Participation of the Galilee in the War of Qitos(=Quietus) or in the “Ben Kosiba Revolt,” Cathedra 4 (1977), pp.
Gichon, M. "Aspects of a Roman Army in War According to the Bellum Judaicum of Josephus," in D. Kennedy and D. Riley, Rome's Desert Frontier from the Air, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990, pp.
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 Sketches in the History of Western Philosophy
It is all inherited by the Romans, perhaps symbolicly with the killing of Archimedes at Syracuse by a Roman soldier in 212 (during the Second Punic War, 218-201).
Once the war was won, the Romans continued to press their advantage, occupying Sardinia and Corsica (237) and gaining a toehold in Illyrium and Epirus (228).
In the second place, however, it meant a revival of the concerns of Classical learning, meaning those which were humanistic in the Greek sense, and a turning away from what was seen as the obscurantism and irrelevant abstraction of scholasticism.
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 NOVA ROMA ::: Camenaeum ::: RES PUBLICA
Third Samnite War ends; Samnites forced to become allies of Rome, Roman domination of central Italy is complete.
War Against Hannibal (aka Second Punic War) begins.
Second Macedonian War (against Philip V of Macedon) begins.
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 second punic war
They therefore sent frequent messages to Rome asking for instructions: for if they approached the enemy they would not be able to avoid an engagement, in view of the fact that the country was being plundered, and the allies all in a state of excitement.
It was to Aemilius [L. Aemilius Paullus, Consul for 216 B.C.] that all eyes turned, and on him the most confident hopes were fixed; for his life had been a noble one, and he was thought to have managed the recent Illyrian war with advantage to the state.
Most of their wars are decided by one Consul and two legions, with their quota of allies [thus two citizen legions and two allied legions combined]; and they rarely employ all four at one time and on one service.
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Which Greek historian was a leading politician of the Achaean League who incurred the suspicions of the Romans during their wars in Greece and suffered deportation to Italy in 167 BC?
Describe the scope of the Carthaginian empire at the start of the First Punic War.
At the end of the First Punic War, the Carthaginians surrended the island of Sicily.
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 Legion XXIV - Time Line of Republican Rome
415-413 Siege of Syracuse (east coast of Sicely), Peloponnesian War (431-404), Athenians (22,000) attempt to capture Syracuse from the Spartans (22,000) and are defeated, marking the beginning of the decline of Athens and the rise of Sparta.
401 BC Battle of Cunaxa, First Persian Civil War, near Babylon, in which Cyrus of Persia was killed in an attempt (with a Spartan and Greek contingent) to seize the Persian throne from his brother Artaxerxes II.
207 BC Battle of Metaurus (south of Fano on Adriatic coast of Italy), 2nd Punic War (219-202) where Marcus Livius and Claudius Nero and Roman force of 50,000 defeated a Carthginian army (50,000 with war elephants) under Hasdrubal (brother of Hannibal) and was the turning point in expelling the Carthginians from Italy.
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 Roman Resources at the Atrium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The chronology itself is based largely on that found in Cary and Scullard's History of Rome, with additions from handouts that I've used in classroom situations.
Colour -coding has been used to indicate wars of long duration which have a number of events associated with them; what this means is that the strict chronological framework is departed from from time to time.
First Illyrian War to deal with piracy in the Adriatic; Roman beachhead on the coast of Illyia
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 Roman History from 270 to 120 BCE: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
War with Antiochus III or Asiatic War (192-189)
Fourth Macedonian War (146)- the sack of Corinth by the Romans Pausanias vii.16-7-17.1
Growth of large estates (Appian Civil Wars I.7-8)
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