Re: MUSINGS ON THE SCHEME OF THINGS
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 1:40 p
Second Punic War, continued ...
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The tide turns (210–209 BC)
Italy (210–209 BC)
Carthage sent more reinforcements to Sicily and Hanno and Mottones went over to the offensive, capturing Macella and re-capturing Morgantina.
Marcellus was succeeded by the praetor Marcus Cornelius, who first dealt with indiscipline in the Roman army, after which he checked the Carthaginian progress by taking Morgantina.
The hyper-aggressive Roman consul Marcus Valerius Laevinus took charge in 210 BC and immediately marched on Agrigentum to evict Carthage from Sicily.
Hanno demoted Mottones and Hanno's son was given the command of the cavalry instead.
Mottones betrayed the Carthaginian cause and opened the gates of Agrigentum to the Romans.
The Romans massacred the population of the city or sold them to slavery.
Hanno and Epicydes fled to Carthage in a merchant ship.
Laevinus captured 66 other Sicilian towns, of which 40 surrendered and 26 were taken through force or treachery.
He put Sicilian farms back into production and the supply of grain to Rome was resumed in 209 BC.
In Italy, the second Battle of Herdonia (210 BC) was fought to lift the Roman siege of that allied city.
Hannibal caught the proconsul Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus off guard during his siege of Herdonia and destroyed his army in a pitched battle with up to 13,000 Romans dead of 20,000.
The defection of the allied city of Salapia in Apulia in 210 BC was achieved by treachery: the inhabitants massacred the Numidian garrison and went over to the Romans.
In 210 BC, the Battle of Numistro between Marcellus and Hannibal was inconclusive, but the Romans stayed on his heels until the also inconclusive Battle of Canusium in 209 BC.
In the meantime, this battle enabled another Roman army under Fabius to approach Tarentum and take it by treachery in the second Battle of Tarentum (209 BC).
Hannibal, at that time, had been able to disengage from Marcellus and was only 8.0 km (5 mi) away when the city, under the command of Carthalo, who was bound to Fabius by an agreement of hospitality, fell.
TO BE CONTINUED …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Punic_War
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The tide turns (210–209 BC)
Italy (210–209 BC)
Carthage sent more reinforcements to Sicily and Hanno and Mottones went over to the offensive, capturing Macella and re-capturing Morgantina.
Marcellus was succeeded by the praetor Marcus Cornelius, who first dealt with indiscipline in the Roman army, after which he checked the Carthaginian progress by taking Morgantina.
The hyper-aggressive Roman consul Marcus Valerius Laevinus took charge in 210 BC and immediately marched on Agrigentum to evict Carthage from Sicily.
Hanno demoted Mottones and Hanno's son was given the command of the cavalry instead.
Mottones betrayed the Carthaginian cause and opened the gates of Agrigentum to the Romans.
The Romans massacred the population of the city or sold them to slavery.
Hanno and Epicydes fled to Carthage in a merchant ship.
Laevinus captured 66 other Sicilian towns, of which 40 surrendered and 26 were taken through force or treachery.
He put Sicilian farms back into production and the supply of grain to Rome was resumed in 209 BC.
In Italy, the second Battle of Herdonia (210 BC) was fought to lift the Roman siege of that allied city.
Hannibal caught the proconsul Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus off guard during his siege of Herdonia and destroyed his army in a pitched battle with up to 13,000 Romans dead of 20,000.
The defection of the allied city of Salapia in Apulia in 210 BC was achieved by treachery: the inhabitants massacred the Numidian garrison and went over to the Romans.
In 210 BC, the Battle of Numistro between Marcellus and Hannibal was inconclusive, but the Romans stayed on his heels until the also inconclusive Battle of Canusium in 209 BC.
In the meantime, this battle enabled another Roman army under Fabius to approach Tarentum and take it by treachery in the second Battle of Tarentum (209 BC).
Hannibal, at that time, had been able to disengage from Marcellus and was only 8.0 km (5 mi) away when the city, under the command of Carthalo, who was bound to Fabius by an agreement of hospitality, fell.
TO BE CONTINUED …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Punic_War