`` There was also Gott strafe Angleterre '', Moreland reminded me, `` and Carthago delenda est, or if you will, Deus strafe Carthage.

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.

After the victory, in 534, the Temple treasure of Jerusalem, looted by the Romans in 70 AD and taken to Carthage by the Vandals after their sack of Rome in 455, was brought to Constantinople and deposited for a time, perhaps in the Church of St. Polyeuctus, before being returned to Jerusalem in either the Church of the Resurrection or the New Church.

Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, said that the first commandment given to men was to increase and multiply, but now that the earth was full there was no need to continue this process of multiplication.

" The letter was eventually accepted as part of the Canon by the Church Fathers such as Athanasius and the Synods of Laodicea ( c. 363 ) and Carthage ( 397 ).

Defeated he fled back to Carthage and was killed.

The First Punic War ( 264 to 241 BC ) was the first of three wars fought between Ancient Carthage and the Roman Republic.

Carthage, located in what is today Tunisia, was the dominant Western Mediterranean power at the beginning of the conflicts.

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.

Meanwhile, Carthage had begun to build a mercenary army in Africa which was to be shipped to Sicily to meet the Romans.

In past wars on the island of Sicily, Carthage had won out by relying on certain fortified strong-points throughout the island, and their plan was to conduct the land war in the same fashion.

The Roman military was a land-based army while Carthage was primarily a naval power.

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

At first, Regulus was victorious, winning the Battle of Adys and forcing Carthage to sue for peace.

Following the conclusive naval victory off Drepana in 249 BC, Carthage ruled the seas as Rome was unwilling to finance the construction of yet another expensive fleet.

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

Without naval support, Hamilcar Barca was cut off from Carthage and forced to negotiate peace and agree to evacuate Sicily.

Consequently, Carthage was able to reinforce and re-supply its besieged strongholds, especially Lilybaeum, on the western end of Sicily.

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.

The older brother Tiberius was the most distinguished young officer in the Third Punic War, Rome's last campaign against Carthage.

Both the Greeks and the Phoenicians colonized North African soil, and Punic civilization emerged, although its central city of Carthage was not in present-day Libya but in neighboring Tunisia.

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.

Hannibal lived during a period of great tension in the Mediterranean, when the Roman Republic established its supremacy over other great powers such as Carthage, the Hellenistic kingdoms of Macedon, Syracuse, and the Seleucid empire.

He established a police force, appointed officials to carry out his land reforms, and ordered the rebuilding of Carthage and Corinth.

An African prefecture, centered in Carthage, was established in April 534, but it would teeter on the brink of collapse during the next 15 years, amidst warfare with the Moors and military mutinies.

* Dionysius II makes peace with Carthage on the same terms established after his father's defeat by Carthage in the previous decade.

Settlement began around 1798 with a ferry service and tavern established at that location, but development was slower compared to Carthage on the other side of the river in spite of water power available to both communities.

Later on March 6, 1863 Union Brigadier General George Crook established a Union outpost in Carthage to serve as a base from clearing out the considerable Confederate guerrilla activity that was active from east Tennessee through middle Tennessee.

With Roman backing, Masinissa established his own kingdom of Numidia, west of Carthage, with Cirta — present day Constantine — as its capital city.

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.

The Gospel of Peter (), or Gospel according to Peter, is one of the non-Canonical gospels which were rejected by the Church Fathers and the Catholic Church's synods of Carthage and Rome, which established the New Testament canon, as apocryphal.

Carthage was founded in 814 BC, and the Carthaginians by 700 BC had firmly established strongholds in Sicily, Italy and Sardinia, which brought about conflicts of interest with Etruria.

The Roman Republic established the province of Africa in 146 BCE after the defeat of Carthage.

Phoenician traders arrived on the North African coast around 900 BC and established Carthage ( in present-day Tunisia ) around 800 BCE.

From their principal center of power at Carthage, the Carthaginians expanded and established small settlements ( called emporia in Greek ) along the North African coast ; these settlements eventually served as market towns as well as anchorages.

Two of them were established in Numidia, behind the coastal areas controlled by Carthage.

The Roman province of Africa ( named for a people who lived there ) was established after the Romans defeated Carthage in the Third Punic War.

During the 6th century BC, mostly under the leadership of the Magonid dynasty, Carthage established a commercially dominate position in the Western Mediterranean.

Caltanissetta's origins can be traced back to 406 BC, when admiral Nicia of Hamilcar's siege force from Carthage established a fort at the site, later called Castra Nicia ( Fort Nicia ).

In 439 the Vandals moved eastward ( temporarily abandoning Numidia ) and captured Carthage, where they established an independent state with a powerful navy.

It became the capital of the short-lived African kingdom of the Germanic Vandals ( founded in 429-430 ), which was wiped out circa 533 by the Byzantines who established the African prefecture and later the Exarchate of Carthage.

Two exarchates were established, one in Italy, with seat at Ravenna ( hence known as the Exarchate of Ravenna ), and one in Africa, based at Carthage and including all imperial possessions in the Western Mediterranean.

Coupled with the final destruction of Carthage, and the end of Macedon's independence, by the latter half of the 2nd century BC, Roman control over all of what was later to be dubbed mare nostrum (" our sea ") had been established.