Huurlingenopstand 240-238 v.C

Strijdtoneel Africa 307 v.C

gestippeld: gebied in handen van de Grieken.

veldslag bij de Zouphones.

Zouphones is een stam in Noord-Afrika. De huurling Clinon verlies van Agathocles. Schematische weergave.

veldslag bij Carthago 310 v.C

310 v.C. Hanno en Bomilcar worden door miscommunicatie in de eigen gelederen verslagen voor Agathocles.

Veldslag Ecnomus 310 v.C.

Hamilcar van Carthago overwint Agathocles van Syracuse m.b.v.net op tijd versterkingen van overzee.

veldslag KRONION op Sicilia 383 v.C.

Strijd in 393-392 v.C op Sicilia.

Carthagers worden bij Abacaenum en Agyrium geblokkeerd.

beleg SYRACUSE 396 v.C

uitvallen Dionysius I

zeeslag voor Katane 397 v.C

Himilco's vloot verslaat de vloot van Syracuse . De voorhoede van de Griekse vloot vaart onder Leptinus te voortvarend vooruit en wordt omsingeld, waarna alle Syracusaanse schepen op de vlucht slaan.

Messana 397 v.C

Himilco neemt deze plaats in door plompverloren met zijn hele vloot de haven binnen te varen.

strijd om de EPICRATIE 397 v.C

Epicratie: zo wordt de Carthaagse provincie op Sicilië genoemd. Himilco verdrijft de Grieken.

MOTYA 398 v.C

Dionysios van Syracuse valt onverwachts een belangrijk steunpunt van Carthago aan en verwoest de stad na een mislukte ontzettingspoging door de Carthaagse vloot.

GELA 406 v.C

GERUNIUM

Cabala & Cronium

Battles of Cabala & Cronium. We do not know the exact location of the places where these battles took place, but it must have been somewhere in central Sicily. We probably need to go back in time to 383 B.C. The fight was between the Greeks and the Carthaginians. Incidentally, the Carthaginian army was only for a small part Carthaginian and that was mainly the military leadership. Most were mercenaries from Iberia, Libya, Sardinia and Campania. Mago is the commander of the Carthaginian army at Cabala. This battle is won by Dionysius of Syracuse and Mago was killed. The circumstances of the battle is virtually unknown. Which is however known for the battle of Cronium, which came after a ceasefire. There is, therefore, to make a schematic representation of it. Now the son of Mago was the commander of the Carthaginian army and his name is Himilco (ḥimilk) and he wins this time.

EUMACHUS

STRUGGLE WITH THE GREEKS

The wars of Carthage with the Romans are well known. However the Carthaginians had to defend them just as much against the aggressive Greeks. For instance the war with Agathokles by the end of the 4^th century B.C. Sometimes we don’t know the exact location of a battle and we have to make a schematic picture of it. I choose a battle between Eumachus = (a general of Archagatus = brother of Agathokles) and Himilco in the interior of Africa in the year 307 B.C. The invading Greeks are looting the countryside and Himilco wants to stop that.

Diodorus of Sicily, Book XX.60:

As for Himilco, who had been appointed to conduct the campaign into the interior, at first he rested in a certain city lying in wait for Eumachus, who dragging along his army heavily loaded with the spoils from the captured cities. Then when the Greeks drew up their forces and challenged him to battle, Himilco left part of his army under arms in the city, giving them orders that, when he retired in pretended flight, they should burst out upon the pursuers. He himself, leading out half of his soldiers and joining battle a little distance in front of the encampment, at once took to flight as if panic-stricken. Eumachus’ men, elated by their victory and giving no thought at all to their formation, followed, and in confusion pressed hard upon those who were withdrawing; but when suddenly from another part of the city there poured forth the army all ready for battle and when a great host shouted at a single command, they became panic-stricken. Accordingly, when the barbarians fell upon an enemy who had been thrown into disorder and frightened by the sudden onslaught, the immediate result was the rout of the Greeks. Since the Carthaginians cut off the enemy’s return to his camp, Eumachus was forced to withdraw to the nearby hill, which was ill supplied with water. When the Phoenicians invested the place, the Greeks, who had become weak from thirst and were being overpowered by the enemy, were almost all killed. In fact, of eight thousand foot-soldiers only thirty were saved, and of eight hundred horsemen forty escaped from the battle.

So, Himilco achieved here a splendid victory and destroyed the enemy almost completely.

Don’t bother about the Dutch texts in the pictures. When you read the text of Diodorus, then you will understand the moves in the pictures.