The first Punic war, 264-241 BC, grew immediately out of a quarrel between the Sicilian cites of messana and Syracuse. In war 218-291 BC, was one of titanic struggle of history. Rome owed its success to various factors its stubborn will and the military. In 264 BC, Roman was legions from crossing out of Italy for the first time, land in Sicily, and opened the first Punic War. In Rome the consuls Lucius posthumous all the megellus and mamilius vitulus met a Carthaginian relief force at the important town of agrigentum. After the second Punic War, in 202 BC, Italy was a wreck. All of the men had been away fighting in the war, and a lot of them had been killed, and others has decided to stay in Spain or in Africa.
The Roman general Scipio Aemilianus besieged the city for three years and, when it fell, sacked it burned it to the ground. They went to war against Numidia, were defeated, and had to them pay that nation an other war debt. The third Punic War, like the others, in a deliberate Roman Aggression, the result of agitation the destruction of Carthage. North Africa and the into the southern coast of modern day Spain. Merchant sailors from Carthage traded with cities throughout the Mediterranean sea.
The Roman general Scipio Aemilianus besieged the city for three years and, when it fell, sacked it burned it to the ground. They went to war against Numidia, were defeated, and had to them pay that nation an other war debt. The third Punic War, like the others, in a deliberate Roman Aggression, the result of agitation the destruction of Carthage. North Africa and the into the southern coast of modern day Spain. Merchant sailors from Carthage traded with cities throughout the Mediterranean sea.
Carthage controlled Sicily in 264 BCE, so the Romans declared war to defend a small group of roman fortune seekers Carthage had captured. In 270 BC, the Romans regained control of Rehgium and severely punished the survivors of the revolt. In Sicily, the Mamertines ravaged the countryside and collided with the expanding regional empire of the independent city of Syracuse.While the Romans did not wish to come to to aid of soldiers who had unjustly stolen a city from its rightful possessors, and although they were still recovering. Leaving the Carthaginians alone at Messana would give them a free hand to deal with Syracuse; after the Syracusans had been defeated, the Carthaginian takeover of Sicily would essentially be complete.