Dr. Eve MacDonald
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 13 Sep
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And it's close fought.
It's very close.
We um the the the story is quite interesting because it's quite intricate in Polybius.
So perhaps somebody was watching from the Which would be
Yeah.
It's it's like almost an eyewitness because the description is of different groups sort of breaking off and battling in different places.
Eventually, though, supposedly the Corvus wins and the Carthaginians are defeated and the Romans regroup and sail across Africa
to be
The Romans able to board the Carthaginian ships and then fight on the ships like that s seems to have you know made it almost impossible for the Carthaginians to maneuver properly, which makes sense.
If you've you know grasped on and grappled onto an opposing ship, you can hold it in place.
Yeah, and the Carthaginians lose hundreds of ships, so to tens of thousands of soldiers.
And um the Romans cross over into Africa and they land up on the area that we call Cap Bon today, the the beautiful Cape or the Good Cape.
And that's sort of um across the Bay of Tunis on the uh east side of the mainland of what is Tunisia today, is where they seem to have landed, and that's
Also where the previous invasion had landed as well.
This is a really prosperous agricultural area.
not too far from Carthage, but um outside of the you know, uh i the sort of s re local area of Carthage.
So it's an area that's got a small towns and rich agricultural villas and things like that.
Absolutely.
They mean the Romans were they landed.
They are pretty much unstoppable.
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