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	Battle of Agrigentum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agrigentum – 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 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Agrigentum (1024 words)

	Circumvallation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Circumvallation is a standard military tactic of siege used in ancient and modern warfare.
		Siege of Alesia, during the Gallic Wars fought by Julius Caesar against the Gauls.
		Siege of Metz and the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Circumvallation (310 words)

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		During the Siege of Agrigentum, the Carthaginian forces were ravaged by plague and Hannibal Mago died of it.
		Although Hannibal Mago's successor, Himilco, successfully extended the campaign by breaking a Greek siege, capturing the city of Gela, and repeatedly defeating the army of Dionysius, the new Tyrant of Syracuse, Himilco too was weakened by the plague and forced to sue for peace before returning to Carthage.
		The siege met with great success throughout 397 BC, but in 396 BC plague again ravaged the Carthaginian forces and Himilco's forces collapsed.
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		Sieges and land blockades were the most common operations for the regular army.
		The garrison of Agrigentum managed to call for reinforcements and a Carthaginian relief force commanded by Hanno came to the rescue.
		After a few skirmishes, the battle of Agrigentum was fought and won by Rome, and the city fell.
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	Battle of Agrigentum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The battle of Agrigentum (Sicily 261 BC) was the first pitched battle of First Punic War and the first large scale military between Carthaginians and the Republic of Rome.
		The battle was fought after a siege which started in 262 BC and resulted both in a Roman and the beginning of the Roman control Sicily.
		At the time siege and the construction of assault devices such towers was an art foreign to the The only way at their disposal to a fortified city like Agrigentum was blockade.
	www.freeglossary.com /Siege_of_Agrigentum (1129 words)

	Carthage - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		During the siege of Agrigentum, the Carthaginian forces were ravaged by plague, Hannibal Mago himself succumbing to it.
		Although his successor, Himilco, successfully extended the campaign by breaking a Greek siege, capturing the city of Gela and repeatedly defeating the army of Dionysius, the new tyrant of Syracuse, he, too, was weakened by the plague and forced to sue for peace before returning to Carthage.
		The siege met with great success throughout 397 BC, but in 396 BC plague again ravaged the Carthaginian forces, and they collapsed.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/c/a/r/Carthage.html (3079 words)

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		Despite his initial succcess, his siege at Agrigentum was broken, and his forces thrown back - suffering from the plague.
		In response, the Carthaginian general Hamilcar was dispatched to raise the siege and take the offensive against the Greeks.
		After a three year siege, Carthage is completely razed, and would remain unoccupied until Caesar resttled the region more then a century later.
	www.europabarbarorum.com /factions_karthadastim_history.html (1545 words)

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		During the Siege of Agrigentum the Carthaginian forces were ravaged by and Hannibal Mago died of it.
		Although Mago's successor Himilco successfully extended the campaign breaking a Greek siege capturing the city Gela and repeatedly defeating the army of Dionysius the new Tyrant of Syracuse he was weakened by the plague and forced sue for peace before returning to Carthage.
		In 315 BC Agathocles the Tyrant of Syracuse seized the of Messene (present-day Messina).
	www.freeglossary.com /Carthage (2480 words)

	First Punic War - Definition up Erdmond.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The main targets of blockading were the important naval ports, since none of the belligerent parts was based in Sicily and both needed a continuous supply of reinforcements and communication with the mainland.
		In 262_BC, Rome besieged the city of Agrigentum, in an operation that involved both consular armies, in a total of four Roman_legions, an would take several months to resolve.
		The garrison of Agrigentum managed to call for reinforcements and a relieving force commanded by Hanno came to rescue.
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		This is known as circumvallation, and Caesar uses it later in the siege of Alesia.
		After withstanding siege for some weeks, Caesar managed by forced march to reach the camp and relieve it by engaging the attackers and defeating them.
		This is the oppidium (citadel) of the Gallic tribe known as the Bituriges.
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	264 BCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Arriving at the gates of Messana, Hiero stops, rolls for Continuation, and succeeds with a roll '6.' He initiates a siege of Messana, which is an automatic Finish.
		Since the Mamertines are safe now (the lone siege LAM has been drawn), Claudius opts to sail to Catana, with the squadron of triremes escorting.
		Agrigentum has a SADS of 5 (per scenario special rule).
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	All Empires History Forum: The Punic Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Romans invested Agrigentum, which was commanded by a general named Hannibal (not the famed Hannibal of the Second Punic War, mind you), with all four legions, and camped about a mile from the city, and sent a large part of their force to sweep over the land for supplies and such.
		They had entered the war with non-existant siege technology, and they would soon learn that this was crucial to a successful siege of a large and well defended city.
		The siege proved extremely difficult for the Romans and resulted in heavy casualties, and the Romans decided to settle in for a siege to starve out the defenders.
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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 345 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He took the opportunity of a temporary absence of Mutines to give battle to Marcellus ; but the Nu-midian cavalry refused to fight in the absence of their leader, and the consequence was, that Hanno was defeated, with heavy loss.
		Marcellus, however, did not form the siege of Agrigentum, and Hanno thus remained master of that city, while Mutines, with his indefatigable cavalry, gave him the command of all the neighbouring country.
		Mutines hereupon made overtures to the Roman general Laevinus, and betrayed the city of Agrigentum into his hands, Hanno and Epicydes with difficulty making their escape by sea to Carthage.
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	First Punic War, 264-241 BC
		Despite their relative weakness, the defenders nearly defeated the Romans in a surprise attack on their camp, but after the failure of this attack, the defenders were forced on the back foot.
		Despite this, the Roman capture of Agrigentum was a major Roman triumph, and according to Polybius led to the Roman decision to expel the Carthaginians from Sicily and also to the building of the first Roman fleet.
		In 250, the Romans began their siege of Lilybaeum, one of the most active sieges of the war, but despite the best efforts of the Romans, the city did not fall, and the siege continued for the remaining nine years of the war.
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	Carthage Encyclopedia Articles @ 216.92.11.26 () (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The power of this city waned following numerous sieges and its eventual destruction by Alexander the Great, and the role as leader passed to Sidon, and eventually to Carthage.
		The siege met with great success throughout 397 BCE, but in 396 BCE plague again ravaged the Carthaginian forces, and they collapsed.
		Between 280 BCE and 275 BCE, Pyrrhus of Epirus waged two major campaigns in an effort to protect and extend the influence of the Greeks in the western Mediterranean: one against the emerging power of the Roman Republic in southern Italy, the other against Carthage in Sicily.
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	Carthage from the Phoenician Phoenician Kart Hadasht the New City...
		During the Siege of Agrigentum Agrigentum, the Carthaginian forces were ravaged by plague and Hannibal Mago died of it.
		Although Hannibal Mago's successor, Himilco Himilco, successfully extended the campaign by breaking a Greek siege, capturing the city of Gela Gela, and repeatedly defeating the army of Dionysius Dionysius, the new Tyrant of Syracuse, he, too, was weakened by the plague and forced to sue for peace before returning to Carthage.
		The siege met with great success throughout 397 BC 397 BC, but in 396 BC 396 BC plague again ravaged the Carthaginian forces and Himilco's forces collapsed.
	www.biodatabase.de /Carthage (2519 words)

	The Battle of Cannae
		This offensive was led by Claudius and Marcus Valerius Messalla in 263 BC.
		The Romans won further in 262 BC with the towns of Segesta and Agrigentum.
		Agrigentum was won after a long and costly siege.
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		Pliny the Elder reported that "elephants are scared by the smallest squeal of a pig" (VIII, 1.27).
		A siege of Megara was reportedly broken when the Megarians poured oil on a herd of pigs, set them alight, and drove them towards the enemy\'s massed war elephants.
		It is recorded that King Rajasinghe the First, when he laid siege to the Portuguese fort at Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1558, had an elephant phalanx of 2,200 (Peris 1913).
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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1009 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He violently, and in defiance of a deputation from the senate, expelled the proconsul Q. Fabius Gurges from-his command at Cominium, and undertook the siege.
		Sicily was assigned to both Megellus and his colleague, and the siege of Agrigentum, which they
		MEGILLUS or MEGELLUS (M4yi\\os, MeyeAAoy), a man of Eleia, in Lucania, was one of those who, under the auspices of Timoleon, recolo-nised Agrigentum, and gathered together the remnant of its citizens, about b.
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	263 BCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Field Consul, M. Fabius Buteo, will have to be assigned to Sicily, otherwise the siege of Agrigentum will be lifted for lack of a besieging leader.
		Since there's a good chance that Lilybaeum will be under siege at before the year is out, the Carthaginians use Hanno's LAM to dispatch a replacement leader to the city.
		He succeeds with a roll of 6, and the siege of Lilybaeum commences.
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		Soldiers in the trenches of the siege at Petersburg
		Siege of Vicksburg (1863) - Union army besieges Confederate city in the American Civil War.
		Siege of Port Hudson (1863) Union Army surrounds Confederate river stronghold for 48 days.
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	Carthage - Gurupedia
		Agrigentum, the Carthaginian forces were ravaged by plague and Hannibal Mago died of it.
		In 315 BC Agathocles, the Tyrant of Syracuse, seized the city of Messene (present-day
		Hanno the Navigator, led the Carthaginian response and met with tremendous success.
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		The territories of Falerii and Capenae are ravaged.
		Hanno attempts to break the Roman siege of Agrigentum, but is defeated in a pitched battle.
		The Romans raise the siege of Segesta and captures Macella by assault.
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	Rome: Total War @ The Wargamer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The land campaign was more a matter of raids and sieges, with only four large battles being fought in Sicily and North Africa.
		The Romans drove first the Syracuse and then the Carthaginian forces away in series of sharp skirmishes, breaking the siege and raiding down the coast until Appius Claudius’ term as consul was over.
		The Romans, with a secure foothold at Messana and ready sources of supply from their Syracusan allies, felt that the conflict could not be over until the Carthaginians admitted defeat and once again sent two consular armies of approximately 40,000 men to Sicily.
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	RedRampant.com
		219 Hannibal, Hamilcar's son, lays siege to the Spanish city of Saguntum.
		213-211 M.Claudius Marcellus Roman legions lay siege to Syracuse and is victorious
		Capua is put under siege by the Romans.
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	Carthage peee.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		At the same time the Phoenicians settlers came into conflict with the Greeks, and the settlements fell under the leadership of Carthage in the absence of help from distant Tyre.
		Although his successor, Himilco, successfully extended the campaign by breaking a Greek siege, capturing the city of Gela and repeatedly defeating the army of Dionysius I of Syracuse, the new tyrant of Syracuse, he, too, was weakened by the plague and forced to sue for peace before returning to Carthage.
		In 311 BC he invaded the last Carthaginian holdings on Sicily, breaking the terms of the current peace treaty, and laid siege to Agrigentum.
	www.peee.org /en/Carthage (5313 words)

	The world's top first punic war websites
		In 262 BC, Rome besieged the city of Agrigentum, in an operation that involved both consular armies, in a total of four Roman legions, an would take several months to resolve.
		After a few skirmishes, a battle was fought and won by Rome and Agrigentum fell (see battle of Agrigentum for the full account).
		Since Rome lacked naval technology the design of the warships was straightforward copied from apprehended Carthaginian triremes and quinqueremes.
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	Carthage - Wikipedia Light! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In 315 BCE Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse, seized the city of Messene (present-day Messina).
		In 311 BCE he invaded the last Carthaginian holdings on Sicily, breaking the terms of the current peace treaty, and laid siege to Akragas.
		By 310 BCE he controlled almost all of Sicily and had laid siege to Syracuse itself.
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