Carthage lost most of its fleet and was economically incapable of funding another, or of finding manpower for the crews.

The terms of the Treaty of Lutatius designed by the Romans were particularly heavy for Carthage, which had lost bargaining power following its defeat at the Aegates islands.

* By this stage in the Punic War, Carthage has lost to Rome all its Sicilian possessions except Lilybaeum ( now Marsala ) and Drepanum ( now Trapani ).

Gordian II, at the head of a militia army of untrained soldiers, lost the Battle of Carthage and was killed, and Gordian took his own life by hanging himself with his belt.

Gordian II, at the head of a militia army of untrained soldiers, lost the Battle of Carthage and was killed.

As emperor, Tiberios III made the tactical decision to ignore Africa, where Carthage was now definitively lost.

The teams were back and forth for around three quarters but Carthage was overpowered in the fourth quarter and lost 38-20.

Throughout their existence, they lost territory to Magna Graecia, Carthage and Gaul.

Captured Carthage in 695 ( lost again ), then again in 698 ( final ).

Carthage and Elymians joined hands in 510 BC to oppose the expedition of Prince Dorieus, who had lost the Spartan throne and was seeking to found a colony, showed up to colonize Eryx – after being expelled from Libya by Carthage in 511 BC.

Carthage paid 2, 000 silver talents as indemnity, erected two monuments in the memory of Himera, but lost no territory.

The war began as a dispute over the payment of money owed the mercenaries between the mercenary armies who fought the First Punic War on Carthage's behalf, and a destitute Carthage, which had lost most of its wealth due to the indemnities imposed by Rome as part of the peace treaty.

After Syracuse lost the Third Sicilian War, the city of Messana was ceded to Carthage in 307 BC.

Hannibal and his army vanished to the north while Scipio perceiving that he had lost them sent the main force against New Carthage under command of his brother while he returned by ship to Pisa, marched through Etruria, acquired the legions of Manlius and Atilius and camped along the Po to wait for Hannibal.

Eagle-Picher Industries, TAMKO Building Products, AT & T Communications and FAG Bearings are noted employers in Joplin, and Leggett & Platt ( Fortune 500 ) is located in nearby Carthage.

Around 500 BC, the Carthaginian writer Mago recorded these practices in a 28 volume work that was one of the few artifacts to survive the Roman destruction of Carthage during the Third Punic War.

In 184 BC, Hannibal of Carthage had clay pots filled with venomous snakes and instructed his soldiers to throw the pots onto the decks of Pergamene ships.

Carthage attempted to intervene with a fleet of 350 ships ( according to Polybius ), but was defeated in the Battle of Cape Ecnomus.

The loot is send to the harbour of Ostia and loaded into ships, from where the Vandals depart and return to Carthage.

* Carthage and Rome make a treaty whereby Roman ships undertake not to trade to the west of Carthage while the Carthaginians undertake not to interfere in Latin politics.

Carthage at this time was feeling the strain of the prolonged conflict ( In addition to maintaining a fleet and soldiers in Sicily they were also fighting the Libyans and Numidians in Africa ), and as a result Hamilcar was given a fairly small army and the Carthaginian fleet was gradually withdrawn so that by 242 BC Carthage had no ships to speak of in Sicily.

Both were enormous ; Nicephorus Gregoras speaks of one hundred thousand ships, the more reliable Cedrenus says that the fleet that attacked Carthage consisted of eleven hundred and thirteen ships, having each one hundred men on board.

Next they recount an imaginary conversation between some respectable ships that have refused to carry the war to Carthage because the voyage was proposed by Hyperbolus, a man they despise.

* Carthage or Carchedon: A Phoenician city, it marks a western limit of Athenian influence ( line 174 ) and it is somewhere that the ships don't want to go ( 1303 ); an eastern limit is marked by Caria ( 173 ).

Although they were inclined to come to terms with Pyrrhus, supply him money and send him ships once friendly relations were established, he demanded that Carthage abandon all of Sicily and make the Libyan Sea a boundary between themselves and the Greeks.

In the Punic Wars with Carthage, Romans developed the technique of grappling and boarding enemy ships with soldiers.

Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Dido, after Dido, the legendary founder and queen of Carthage.

Yet later his son Gisgo was given the command of seventy ships of Carthage manned by Greek mercenaries and sent to Lilybaeum, after which peace was negotiated by Carthage with Timoleon of Syracuse, c. 340.

He commanded the fleet of thirty ships in the assault on Cartagena ( New Carthage ) in 209 BC.

The next day, hidden amongst the smaller asteroids around Los Alamos 235, the Carthage and her crew watch the space surrounding the Black Asteroid, where an entire fleet of military ships have arrived to retake the station only to be wiped out by a powerful energy surge launched from the asteroid's entry point, draining the station of all external power and lowering its defences.

* The Phoenicians also did not wait for Harpagus ' victory, stealing away on ships, abandoning their homeland for their colony of Carthage.

In 148 BC, Andriskos conquered Thessaly and made an alliance with Carthage, thus bringing the Roman wrath on him.

War with Carthage followed.

After concluding peace with Carthage in 306 BC, Agathocles styled himself king of Sicily in 304 BC, and established his rule over the Greek cities of the island more firmly than ever.

A peace treaty with Carthage left him in control of Sicily east of the Halycus River.

Churchill was saved by Lord Moran, using sulphonamides, since he had no experience with penicillin, when Churchill fell ill in Carthage in Tunisia in 1943.

The growth of the population of ancient civilizations, the formation of ancient empires concentrating political power, and the growth in commerce and manufacturing led to ever greater capital cities and centres of commerce and industry, with Alexandria, Antioch and Seleucia of the Hellenistic civilization, Pataliputra ( now Patna ) in India, Chang ' an ( now Xi ' an ) in China, Carthage, ancient Rome, its eastern successor Constantinople ( later Istanbul ).

The other 50 % were with the emperor ( s ) in his or their Comitatus, with the praetorian prefects, with the grain supply officials in the capital ( later, the capitals, Rome and Constantinople ), Alexandria, and Carthage and officials from the central offices located in the provinces.

Either unhappy with the prospect of a Carthaginian garrison, or convinced that the recent alliance between Rome and Carthage against Pyrrhus reflected cordial relations between the two, the Mamertines petitioned Rome for an alliance, hoping for more reliable protection.

However, the rivalry between Rome and Carthage had grown since the war with Pyrrhus ; therefore, according to Warmington, an alliance with both powers was simply no longer feasible.

According to the historian Polybius, considerable debate took place in Rome on the question of whether to accept the Mamertines ' appeal for help, and thus likely enter into a war with Carthage.

The main blockade targets were the important ports, since neither Carthage nor Rome were based in Sicily and both needed continuous reinforcements and communication with the mainland.

Though Hamilcar was killed in 229 BC, the offensive continued with the Carthaginians extending their power towards the Ebro valley and founding " New Carthage " in 228 BC.

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.

In North Africa the former Phoenician colony of Carthage rose to dominate its surroundings with an empire that contained many of the former Phoenician holdings.

Hasdrubal pursued a policy of consolidation of Carthage's Iberian interests, even signing a treaty with Rome whereby Carthage would not expand north of the Ebro River, so long as Rome did not expand south of it.

It is often argued that if Hannibal had received proper material reinforcements from Carthage, he might have succeeded with a direct attack upon Rome.

In 203 BC, after nearly fifteen years of fighting in Italy, and with the military fortunes of Carthage rapidly declining, Hannibal was recalled to Carthage to direct the defense of his native country against a Roman invasion under Scipio Africanus.

This Roman cavalry superiority was due to the betrayal of Masinissa, who had earlier assisted Carthage in Iberia, but changed sides in 206 BC with the promise of land and due to his personal conflicts with Syphax, a Carthaginian ally.