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Radio War Nerd EP 368 — Salammbô & The Mercenary War, Part 1 (Prequel): The First Punic War

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What Happened to the Carthaginian Navy?

Rome discovers an intact Carthaginian naval vessel and the parts are numbered so they can figure out how to create a new one okay maybe. They revive the Corvus a kind of movable landing ramp that can extend a gangplank for Marines to the other ship which was used by the by the Sicilians in past wars. That enables them instantly to defeat the Carthaginian Navy in a massive battle as big as anything up to the battle of the naval battles of World War II.

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