While retreating from a loss in this war, a fleet suffered what Polybius dubbed the greatest naval disaster known when a storm sunk 184 ships at Camarina.
While retreating from a loss in this war, a fleet suffered what Polybius dubbed the greatest naval disaster known when a storm sunk 184 ships at Camarina. The loss was due to the mercenary commander Xanthippus, who defeated Regulus. In its first battle, Appius Claudius Caudex defeated the alliance of Hiero II. After the decisive battle at Drepana, the victors received the Lipari Islands and Sicily, where the war had begun due to foreign interference in a rivalry between Messana and Syracuse. For 10 points, name this 264 to 241 BCE war between Rome and Carthage.
While retreating from a loss in this war, a fleet suffered what Polybius dubbed the greatest naval disaster known when a storm sunk 184 ships at Camarina.
{First Punic} War [accept {First} Roman-{Carthaginian} War before “Carthage” is read”; prompt on {Punic} Wars; prompt on Roman-{Carthaginian} Wars before “Carthage” is read]