Regional249 BCE

Battle of Drepanum

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Italy

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Drepanum (249 BCE), part of the 1st Punic War. Carthage defeated Rome.

Belligerents2

Carthage
Rome

ON THE MAPCarthaginian EmpireRoman Republic

Conflict graph

PART OFFirst Punic War

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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