Major conflict241 BCE – 237 BCE · 4 years

Mercenary War

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Carthage · Utica · Tunis

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Carthage's brutal war against its unpaid mercenaries and Libyan subjects after the First Punic War, narrated in Polybius.

Belligerents3

Carthage
Mercenary armies
Libyan rebels

ON THE MAPCarthaginian Empire

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 4

Battle of Utica (1st)240 BCE
Battle of Leptis238 BCE
Battle of Saw238 BCE
Battle of Tunis238 BCE

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Mercenary War (241 BCE – 237 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/mercenary-war · Sources & methodology