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Siege of Syracuse

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Carthaginians: Siege of Syracuse (397 BC) Siege of Syracuse (343 BC) Siege of Syracuse (311–309 BC) Siege of Syracuse (278 BC) By the Roman Republic: Siege of Syracuse...

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Sicilian Expedition

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Catania. There they wintered and made preparations for their upcoming siege of Syracuse. When the campaigning season started, the Syracusans moved against...

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Muslim conquest of Sicily

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of the island, and, after a long siege, captured Syracuse in 878. The Byzantines retained control of some fortresses in the north-eastern corner of the...

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Archimedes

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defensive war machines to protect his native Syracuse from invasion. Archimedes died during the siege of Syracuse, when he was killed by a Roman soldier despite...

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Angevin invasion of Sicily

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advance quickly dried up and a protracted siege of Syracuse began. While the allies under James besieged Syracuse, Frederick and the Sicilian army took up...

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Battle of Syracuse

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Syracuse in 397 BC, during one of the Carthaginian campaigns in Sicily. Siege of Syracuse in 212 BC, between the city of Syracuse, and a Roman army under Marcellus...

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List of sieges of Syracuse

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The city of Syracuse, on the island of Sicily southwest of the Italian peninsula, has been besieged repeatedly since its founding as a Greek colony, including...

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List of lost inventions

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siege of Syracuse. Claw of Archimedes, purportedly a sort of crane used to drop an attacking Roman ship partly down in to the water during the siege of...

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

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Igor Jijikine in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Mark Killeen as Pontimus, a soldier from 212 BC during the Siege of Syracuse. Nasser Memarzia as Archimedes...

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List of sieges

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follows. Siege of Aratta (c. 2600 BC) Siege of Uruk (c. 2580 BC) Siege of Qabra (1780 BC) Siege of Hiritum (1764 BC) Siege of Larsa (1763 BC) Siege of Avaris...

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Timeline of ancient Greece

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Epidaurus is annexed by Korinth 619 Herbessus is annexed by Syracuse 616 Miletus is sieged by Lydia 615 Leontini is overthrown by Panaetius 612 Miletus...

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Nicias

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participate in the Athenian invasion of Sicily. The Athenian siege of Syracuse was nearly successful until the arrival of the Spartan general Gylippus, who...

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Antander

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spread of the idea to the besieged Syracusans. In any case, Syracuse survived the siege. Antander is mentioned afterwards as the instrument of his brother's...

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Sicilian Wars

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Messina. Finally, he laid siege to Syracuse itself after decisively defeating the Greeks in the naval Battle of Catana. The siege met with great success...

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Hiero II of Syracuse

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Archimedes in the construction of those engines that, at a later date, played so important a part during the siege of Syracuse by the Romans. According to...

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414 BC

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command of Demosthenes to assist Nicias and his forces with the siege of Syracuse. The Athenian army moves to capture Syracuse while the larger fleet of Athenian...

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Pyrrhus of Epirus

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Carthaginian Siege of Syracuse. Pyrrhus was proclaimed king of Sicily. He was already making plans for his son Helenus, a grandson of Agathocles of Syracuse through...

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