Yukinobu Hoshino

This page relates to the year -203 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

final Défaite of Xiang Yu on the river Hooted. The overcome general slices the throat.
Beginning of the Dynasty of Yue of the South (kingdom of Nanyue, end in -111)

the population of Alexandria lynches the bad advisers of Ptolémée IV Philopator.
Alliance between Philippe V of Macedonia and Antiochos III against Ptolémée V.

April: In Africa, the proconsul Scipion the African takes the offensive against Carthage. It destroys the two armies of Syphax and Hasdrubal to the Bataille of the Large Plains by setting fire to their camp
June: Syphax, overcome one second time, is made prisoner.
Carthage, which does not have any more an army, negotiates peace with Scipion and points out Hannibal of Italy. This one, bitter, embarks the elite of its army. Italian soldiers, who refuse to follow it, took refuge in the sanctuary hitherto inviolable of Juno Lacinia. Hannibal makes them even cut the throat of in the temple.
Hannibal unloads with Leptis Minor (Lamta). It takes the head of the punic army and receives reinforcements numides, Gallic and Macedonians.

Scipion the African put in rout the army of Syphax with the assistance of Massinissa. At the conclusion of the battle, Massinissa makes captive the king of the Massaessyles and goes on Cirta which goes. Disturbed by the queen Sophonisbe, he marries it to save it Romans, then delivers Syphax and the other prisoners to Scipion. In front of the injunctions of Scipion so that it delivers the queen to him, Massinissa makes him drink a cut of poison. The prisoners numides sent to Rome will be returned in Massinissa except for Syphax.

Zh-classical: 前二〇三年

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