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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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him to death by torture, and united with Hiero in laying siege to Syracuse,while, under the pretence that they dared not trust the Italian mercenarieswhom they had hired, they massacred them all. The vigilance of their fleet,however, failed to prevent the Romans from landing enough troops to keeppossession of the town. Hiero was defeated and driven back to Syracuse,while the Carthaginians found refuge in Africa. An army of Romans remainedthrough the following year in Sicily, and gained possession of a large numberof towns. Hiero was so alarmed by the success of the Romans that he hastenedto send back his prisoners, and to propose the payment of tribute and the forma-tion of an alliance. Thus it was that the first Punic War (Ptinica from Pceni, the Latin form ofPhoenicians) began in B.C. 264. The submission of King Hiero brought peaceto his corner of the island; for the Romans let him alone and prosecuted theiroperations in other directions against Carthage. The important city of Agri-
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Rome—Building of the Navy 325 gentum on the southern coast was besieged by them for a long time, duringwhich they were obliged to depend for their supplies on the loyalty of theruler of Syracuse, who never once failed them. One of the most remarkable features of this first Punic War was the amaz-ing development of the Roman navy. At the beginning, they had no fleet atall, but one day a storm flung a Carthaginian quinquereme, as it was termed,on the beach of Latium; and it was seized upon as a model. Workmen beganplying their axes in the forests; timbers were sawn and hewn into shape; andtwo months after the discovery of the wreck, Rome had launched a hundredgalleys and crews were trained in their management. Now this was wonderfulwork, but you need not be reminded that the art of navigation and of navaltactics, even as crudely understood in those days, could not be acquired in theshort period taken to build the boats. We know that the Carthaginians weremasters of the ancient art, an

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