The Battle of Messana (265-264 BCE) takes place as the first military clash between the Roman Republic and Carthage. The Etruscan city of Volsinii is brought under Roman control. During a siege, the consul Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges is killed.

Battle of Mylae, (260 bc), conflict in the First Punic War between Rome and Carthage, whose navy had been harassing Roman peninsular and Sicilian coastal towns. At Mylae the Romans destroyed 50 Carthaginian ships, and the remainder of the enemy fleet fled. The battle marked Rome’s attainment of dominance in Sicilian waters by turning sea ...

260 BCE: The Battle of Mylae. The war’s first naval test came at Mylae (modern Milazzo) in 260 BC, where Consul Gaius Duilius faced Hanno’s fleet of 130 ships. Rome’s 100 quinqueremes, crude but equipped with the corvus, met the Punic line off Sicily’s north coast.

2023年11月1日 · Battle of Mylae (260 BCE) The Battle of Mylae in 260 BCE represented Rome’s first significant victory at sea against the Carthaginians. Despite their lack of naval experience, the Romans, led by consul Gaius Duilius, utilized the aforementioned corvus to secure a …

2021年10月6日 · Sea battle of Mylae (260 BCE) was fought between the Roman fleet and the Carthaginian fleet during the First Punic War. The Roman side won. Tyrrhenian Sea, near Sicily. The newly built Roman fleet under the command of consul Cnaeus Cornelius Scipion was to sail along the eastern coast of Sicily.

2016年5月24日 · Mixed results in the land war on Sicily; the Romans lose many men near Thermae. While the Romans were making steady progress in the land war on Sicily, the Carthaginians still controlled the seas. This meant that it was very difficult for the Romans to lay siege to large coastal cities such as Lilybaeum and Panormus.

2020年4月19日 · 255 BCE – battle of Tunes (Bagradas) Carthaginians (12,000 infantry, 4,000 rides, 100 elephants) defeated the Romans (15,000 infantry, 500 rides) under the command of Regulus, who was captured by Carthaginian.

The Battle of Mylae was a naval confrontation fought in 260 BCE during the First Punic War between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian Empire. This battle marked a significant shift in naval power, as Rome, traditionally a land-based military power, achieved a notable victory at sea against Carthage, changing the dynamics of the ongoing ...

2005年1月1日 · The Battle of Changping (260 B. C.) was the most famous battle in the W arring States period.

2025年3月18日 · 260 bce A Carthaginian quinquereme, captured by the Romans, is used as the model for the first Roman fleet - constructed in two months Go to quinquereme in The Oxford Classical Dictionary (3 rev ed.)