-260

This page relates to the year -260 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Battle of Changping: The armies of Qin, after having crushed those of the state of Zhao carry out 450 000 prisoners. The increasing extent of the confrontations leads to many massacres of this kind, the belligerents not making prisoners, thus breaking any future resistance of the enemy.

With Rome, Consul At of Cn. Cornelius Scipio Asina, Caius Duilius Nepos.
Rome obtains in the two months space with a fleet 120 ships built, according to the legend, on the model of a punic boat. Crews are involved with haste. The maritime allies of Rome - Etruscan, Volsques, Greek of the South and Syracusains - provide the specialized elements.
Demolished naval of Rome in the islands Lipari.
the Romains (Caius Duilius Nepos) gain the Bataille of Mylae over Carthage. Rome beats the Carthaginians, however higher of number, using hooks (“ corbels of Duilius ”) which enable them to take the enemy vessels with the boarding and to compensate for the skilful superiority of the Carthaginians. Thanks to this victory the Romans have a sufficient control of the seas to be able to unload troops in Corsica and to drive out the Carthaginians of this island.

Invention of the bridge of boarding at the time of the battles naval of Myles. The Romains apply in naval action the terrestrial tactics by the use of the bridge of boarding (the corbel).

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