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During the first Punic war, the ultimate goal was to get the Carthaginians out of Sicily. The Romans tried overtaking them town by town but this proved too difficult, so the Romans decided to cut off their supplies from Africa by sea. Since the Carthaginians were much better sailors than Romans, the Romans devised a device called a corvus to turn sea battles in land battles, where they had the advantage. In 256BC Roman decide to invade the Carthaginian homeland in Africa but do not manage to defeat the Carthaginians before the end of the campaigning season. In the meantime, the Carthaginians hire a Spartan general to train their army and they crush the Roman in the spring. After this, many Roman troops and much of the Roman fleet are lost in storms at sea, but the Romans rebuild and attack the Carthaginian with their new fleet in 242BC. The Carthaginians are caught unawares and are decisively defeated and forced to leave Sicily.

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