The Battle of the Bagradas River, also known as the Battle of Tunis, was a victory by a Carthaginian army led by Xanthippus over a Roman army led by Marcus Atilius Regulus in the spring of 255 BC, nin
Polybius – "a remarkably well-informed, industrious, and insightful historian"
Detail from the Ahenobarbus relief showing two Roman foot-soldiers from the second century BC
Roman statuette of a war elephant, recovered from Pompeii