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The Mamertines allied with a nearby Carthaginian fleet and held off the Syracusans, but when the Carthaginians did not leave, the Mamertines appealed to Rome in 264 BC.
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Mamertines and with
In Sicily, the Mamertines ravaged the countryside and collided with the expanding regional empire of the independent city of Syracuse.
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.
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.
A deadlocked senate put the matter before the popular assembly, where it was decided to accept the Mamertines ' request and Appius Claudius Caudex was appointed commander of a military expedition with orders to cross to Messana.
Rome therefore enters into an alliance with the Mamertines.
* Appius Claudius Caudex leads his forces to Messina, and as the Mamertines have convinced the Carthaginians to withdraw, he meets with only minimal resistance.
Carthage assisted the Mamertines because of a long-standing conflict with Syracuse over dominance in Sicily.
Rome therefore entered into an alliance with the Mamertines.
He led a force to Messina and, as the Mamertines had convinced the Carthaginians to withdraw, he met with only a symbolic resistance.
Hiero met with the Mamertines when they were nearing Syracuse.
However, unwilling to see Carthaginian power spread further over Sicily and get too close to Italy, Rome responded by entering into an alliance with the Mamertines.
* The Mamertines make an alliance with the Carthaginians and try to stop Pyrrhus crossing to Sicily.
Mamertines and nearby
When Hiero returned to besiege their base ( Messana ) in 265 BC the Mamertines called for help from a nearby fleet from Carthage, which occupied the harbor of Messana.
Mamertines and Carthaginian
Following the defeat at the river Longanus, the Mamertines appealed to both Rome and Carthage for assistance, and acting first the Carthaginians approached Hiero to take no further action and convinced the Mamertines to accept a Carthaginian garrison in Messana.
Two legions commanded by Appius Claudius Caudex disembarked at Messana, where the Mamertines had expelled the Carthaginian garrison commanded by Hanno ( no relation to Hanno the Great ).
The Mamertines enlisted the aid of the Carthaginian navy, and then subsequently betrayed them by entreating the Roman Senate for aid against Carthage.
Mamertines and held
The Mamertines held the town of Messana for over 20 years.
Mamertines and Syracusans
He fell into the hands of the Athenians in 427 BC and after various vicissitudes, they saw that the contention by the Carthaginians, Greeks and Syracusans, Milazzo was subtracted from the Mamertines Hiero II of Syracuse.
* The Mamertines, a body of Campanian mercenaries who have been employed by Agathocles, the former tyrant of Syracuse, capture the stronghold of Messana ( Messina in north-eastern Sicily ), from which they harass the Syracusans.
In the meantime, the Mamertines, a body of Campanian mercenaries who had been employed by Agathocles, had seized the stronghold of Messana, and proceeded in harassing the Syracusans.
Mamertines and when
However, when the Carthaginians do not leave, the Mamertines appeal to Rome for an alliance, hoping for more reliable protection.
Now Hiero first came to the front in 275 when he was made General: Theocritus speaks of his achievements as still to come, and the silence of the poet would show that Hiero ’ s marriage to Phulistis, his victory over the Mamertines at the Longanus and his election as " King ", events which are ascribed to 270, had not yet taken place.
Mamertines and Carthaginians
The Mamertines hand the city over to Appius Claudius, but the Carthaginians return to set up a blockade.
In 288 BC, the Mamertines, Italian mercenaries that were hired to attack the Carthaginians, went to the city of Messana to protect it, but instead massacred its men, took the land, and forced the women to become their wives.
The Mamertines handed the city over to Appius Claudius, but the Carthaginians returned and laid siege to Messana.
Mamertines and appealed
In 280 BC, the Mamertines appealed to King Pyrrhus of Epirus for help.
Uncomfortable under the Cathaginian " protection ," the Mamertines now appealed to Rome to be allowed into the protection of the Roman people.
Mamertines and Rome
* 264 BC: The Mamertines seek assistance from Rome to replace Carthage's protection against the attacks of Hiero II of Syracuse.
In 264 BC he again returned to the attack, and the Mamertines called in the aid of Rome.
At some time between 268 and 265, Hiero II decisively defeated the Mamertines at the Longanus River which caused the Mamertines to appeal to Carthage and Rome, the other major powers in the region besides Syracuse, for military aid.
Mamertines and 264
When Hiero attacked a second time in 264 BC, the Mamertines petitioned the Roman Republic for an alliance, hoping for more reliable protection.
Mamertines and BC
In 288 BC, the Mamertines — a group of Italian ( Campanian ) mercenaries originally hired by Agathocles of Syracuse — occupied the city of Messana ( modern Messina ) in the northeastern tip of Sicily, killing all the men and taking the women as their wives.
At a later period we find it mentioned as espousing the cause of Hieron, and supporting him during his war against the Mamertines, 269 BC.
In 288 BC the Mamertines seized the city by treachery, killing all the men and taking the women as their wives.
In 265 BC, Hiero II of Syracuse had attacked Messina in an attempt to capture it from the Mamertines, mercenaries from Campania who had taken it some years before.
The Longanus ( also Longanos or Loitanus ) was a river in north-eastern Sicily on the Mylaean plain and was, as recorded by Polybius, the location at which the Mamertines were drastically defeated by Hiero II of Syracuse in around 269 BC.
Mamertines and .
Hiero II, tyrant of Syracuse, defeated the Mamertines near Mylae on the Longanus River.
It began as a local conflict in Sicily between Hiero II of Syracuse and the Mamertines of Messina.
* The tyrant of Syracuse, Hiero II, once more attacks the Mamertines.
Hiero II, tyrant of Syracuse, defeated the Mamertines near Mylae on the Longanus River and besieged Messina.
* Hiero II threatens to renew his attack on the Mamertines.
The Mamertines also appeal to the Romans who are also willing to help.
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