THE BATTLE OF CAPE ECHELON 256 BC: Rome’s Naval Nightmare Against Carthage скачать в хорошем качестве

THE BATTLE OF CAPE ECHELON 256 BC: Rome’s Naval Nightmare Against Carthage

Summer, two hundred and fifty-six BC. Off the southern coast of Sicily, six hundred and eighty warships carrying nearly three hundred thousand men converged in what the Greek historian Polybius—writing from records maintained by those who witnessed the battle—would document as the greatest naval engagement in ancient history. The Roman Republic, a land power with less than a decade of naval experience, was about to face Carthage's legendary Mediterranean fleet in a clash that would dwarf every sea battle that came before it. By sunset, ninety-four Carthaginian warships would be captured or destroyed. The path to Africa lay open. Rome's first invasion of a foreign continent could begin. Source: 📌 Real encounter during the First Punic War where Rome’s fleet was destroyed by disaster rather than combat — a turning point. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Pu...