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During the First Punic War, 264–241 BC, the Carthaginian and Roman Republic fleets engaged in naval combat in the Battle of Cape Ecnomus, sometimes known as Eknomos, off the coast of southern Sicily in 256 BC. The First Punic War began when the states of Carthage and Rome clashed in 264 BC. Rome had just unified mainland Italy south of the Po under the dominion of Carthage, a long-standing naval power in the Western Mediterranean. Control of the Sicilian town of Messana was the direct cause of the conflict. In a broader sense, both factions wanted to rule over the most potent city-state of Sicily, Syracuse. By 256 BC, the war had escalated into a struggle in which the Romans sought to subdue the Carthaginians and, at the very least, seize control of Sicily as a whole. The Carthaginians were following their long-standing strategy of waiting for their adversaries to exhaust themselves in the hopes of reclaiming some or all of their belongings and reaching a peace agreement that would satisfy both parties. The Romans had taken over most of Sicily and were largely a land-based force. Since the Carthaginians concentrated on protecting their well-defended towns and cities—most of which were on the coast and could be resupplied and reinforced without the Romans using their greater army to intervene—the battle there had come to a standstill. The Romans had little experience at sea, and on the few instances when they had felt the need for a naval presence in the past, they had depended on tiny squadrons supplied by their allies. This changed the focus of the conflict to the sea. Hanno and Hamilcar (not to be confused with Hamilcar Barca) led the Carthaginian fleet, while Marcus Atilius Regulus and Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus, the consuls for the year, jointly led the Roman fleet. The Romans emerged victorious in the end. Shortly before the conflict, the Roman fleet, which consisted of 330 warships and an unspecified number of transports, sailed from Ostia, the port of Rome, and loaded about 26,000 selected legionaries. They intended to invade the Carthaginian homeland in present-day Tunisia after crossing to Africa. Off the south coast of Sicily, the Carthaginians gathered all 350 of their warships to intercept the Romans since they knew what they were up to. The battle, which featured over 680 warships carrying up to 290,000 crew members and marines, was perhaps the biggest battle in ancient history and, given the number of combatants, the largest naval engagement in history. The battle broke out into three distinct battles when the fleets clashed, with the Carthaginians taking the lead and hoping that their superior ship-handling abilities would prevail. The Romans lost 24 ships sunk, while the Carthaginians lost 30 ships sunk and 64 seized after a long and perplexing day of warfare. #History

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