In 264 the Carthaginians intervened in a dispute between the two principal cities on the Sicilian east coast, Messana and Syracuse, and so established a presence on the island.Rome, responding to this challenge, attacked Messana and forced the Carthaginians to withdraw.
![]() A second Roman fleet sailed in 256 and established a beachhead on the African continent. Carthage was prepared to surrender, but the terms offered by Rome were too severe, and in 255 Carthage attacked with a new army built around cavalry and elephants and drove the invaders to the sea. The battle for Sicily resumed in 254 but was largely stalemated until 241, when a fleet of 200 warships gave the Romans undisputed control of the sea-lanes and assured the collapse of the Punic stronghold in Sicily. One year later Carthage surrendered, ceding Sicily and the Lipari Islands to Rome and agreeing to pay an indemnity. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Augustyn, Managing Editor, Reference Content. The Mamertini, a band of Campanian mercenaries, had forcibly established themselves within the town. The earliest known, which probably dated from the first year of the Roman Republic, as Polybius believed (508 or 507 by his reckoning), may well have renewed previously made contacts with Etruscan Rome. ![]()
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