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* 218 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia – Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic.
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He served twice as Roman Consul and Roman Censor, and in 218 BC he took part in the embassy to Carthage.
It was this expansion that led to the Second Punic War when Carthage besieged the Roman protected town of Saguntum in 218 BC, igniting a conflict with Rome.
Thus, Hannibal took the Romans by surprise a scant two years later in 218 BC by merely reviving and adapting the original Gaulish-Carthaginian invasion plan of his brother-in-law.
Starting in the spring of 218 BC, he crossed the Pyrenees and, by conciliating the Gaulish chiefs along his passage, reached the River Rhône before the Romans could take any measures to bar his advance.
The alpine invasion of Italy was a military operation that would shake the Mediterranean World of 218 BC with repercussions for more than two decades.
The Lusitani are mentioned for the first time in Livy ( 218 BC ) and are described as fighting for the Carthaginians ; they are reported as fighting against Rome in 194 BC, sometimes allied with Celtiberian tribes.
The Second Punic War occurred from 218 – 201 BC ; its central event was Hannibal's invasion of Italy.
Thus, Hannibal took the Romans by surprise a mere two years later ( 218 BC ) by merely reviving and adapting the original Gaulo-Carthaginian invasion plan of his brother-in-law Hasdrubal.
After assaulting Saguntum, Hannibal surprised the Romans in 218 BC by leading the Iberians and three dozen elephants through the Alps.
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The Second Punic War, also referred to as The Hannibalic War, ( by the Romans ) The War Against Hannibal, or " The Carthaginian War ", lasted from 218 to 201 BC and involved combatants in the western and eastern Mediterranean.
The result was a Roman victory in the battle of Cissa in 218 BC.
They had lost all but one major naval engagement in the First Punic War and in 218 BC a naval engagement in the waters of Lilybaeum had been lost despite numerical superiority.
In 218 BC, the Carthaginian navy was busy scouting the Sicilian waters and preparing for a surprise attack on their former key stronghold Lilybaeum on the western tip of the island.
In 218 BC preparations were made to launch a Roman expedition from the same Lilybaeum against Africa.
* 218 BC: Second Punic War begins.
The Roman republic in 218 BC ( all colours except white and blue ).
The Roman empire in 218 BC ( in dark red )
Year 218 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
The denomination 218 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
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The islands later came under the control of Carthage ( 400 BC ) and then of the Roman Republic ( 218 BC ).
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" How to Read Li ' l Abner Intelligently " from Mass Culture: Popular Arts in America, pp. 218 – 224 ( 1957 ) Free Press
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' Journal of African Languages, 5, 218 – 251.
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Gallienus (; c. 218 – 268 ) was Roman Emperor with his father Valerian from 253 to 260, and alone from 260 to 268.
203 – 11 March 222 ), also known as Heliogabalus, was Roman Emperor from 218 to 222.
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* 1944 – World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
* 2007 – The Al-Khilani Mosque in Baghdad is bombed, killing 78 people and injuring 218 others.
* 218 – Battle of Antioch: Elagabalus defeats with support of the Syrian legions the forces of emperor Macrinus.
American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks became the owners of the club during the 2006 – 07 season, in a deal which valued the club and its outstanding debts at £ 218. 9 million.
* 218 – Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus and declares her 14-year old grandson Elagabalus, emperor of Rome.
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The Second Punic War ( 218 BCE – 201 BCE ) is most remembered for the Carthaginian Hannibal's crossing of the Alps.
( Googles Livres ) * Societe'd ' etudes de la province de Cambrai, Lille-1907 * Innocent VI: le reformateur, deuxieme pape Limousin ( 1352 – 1362 ) Antoine Pellisier -( 1961 )- 218 pages
* December 16 – Train 87 from Nanjing to Xining collides with train 368 from Xi ' an to Xuzhou near Yangzhuang railway station in China, killing 106, injuring 218.
The Sacramento supports 40 – 60 species of fish, and 218 types of birds.
During the Second Punic War ( 218 – 202 BC ), the Veneti even sent a contingent of soldiers to fight alongside the Romans against Hannibal and the invading Carthaginians and Venetians were among those slaughtered at the Battle of Cannae ( 216 BC ).
Some of them are important commercial fishery species, notably small yellow croaker with reported landings of 218, 00 – 407, 000 tonnes in 2000 – 2009 ; based on the FAO fishery statistics from 2009, it was the 25th most important fishery species worldwide.
males age 18 – 49: 2, 218, 662
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