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262 BCERome besieges and sacks Agrigento on Sicily in one of the first actions of the First Punic War.
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212 BCEA Carthaginian army is defeated in Sicily by a Roman army led by Marcellus. Syracuse falls to Rome who now control the island.
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204 BCE - 203 BCEScipio Africanus wins two battles and besieges Utica in North Africa.
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149 BCERome sends an army of 80,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry to attack Carthage.
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148 BCEThe Roman siege of Carthage, in its second year, remains unsuccessful.
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146 BCEScipio Africanus the Younger sacks Carthage and enslaves its population.
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86 BCEThe Roman general Sulla sacks Athens and the port of Piraeus.
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52 BCEAfter becoming trapped and besieged at Alesia, Vercingetorix surrenders to Caesar.
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51 BCECaesar's siege and capture of Uxellodunum ends the Gallic War.
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49 BCEJulius Caesar besieges Massilia.
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43 CEMaiden Castle, a Celtic hilltop fort in southern Britain, is captured by Roman legions.
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70 CEThe city of Jerusalem is besieged and captured by Rome; the Second Temple destroyed.
