. The Library of historic characters and famous events of all nations. CARTHAGE, founded by the Phoeni-cians in northern Africa, was for avery long period the one great rivalof the Roman power. Thrice be-tween the years 264 and 146 didthis city contest with Rome for thesupremacy of the ]\ wars were called by the Ro-mans Punic—that is, First Punic War covered a periodof twenty-three years, and resultedin the defeat by the Romans, not onlyof the armies, but of the fleets of theCarthaginians, who had prided themselves on their navalpower. The Second Punic Wa
. The Library of historic characters and famous events of all nations. CARTHAGE, founded by the Phoeni-cians in northern Africa, was for avery long period the one great rivalof the Roman power. Thrice be-tween the years 264 and 146 didthis city contest with Rome for thesupremacy of the ]\ wars were called by the Ro-mans Punic—that is, First Punic War covered a periodof twenty-three years, and resultedin the defeat by the Romans, not onlyof the armies, but of the fleets of theCarthaginians, who had prided themselves on their navalpower. The Second Punic War, 218 to 201 , commencedwith Hannibals siege of Saguntum in Spain, and was occu-pied chiefly with his invasion and conquest of Italy, but wasterminated by his defeat in the battle of Zama, within a daysmarch of Carthage. The third war was a most desperate con-flict, and was ended by the destruction of Carthage by theRomans, 146 Publius Cornelius Scipio, the chief Roman hero of theSecond Punic War, was born in Rome in 234 He cameof the illustrious Co
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