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Salammbô by Jean-Paul Sinibaldi

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Adriana and her childrens.

My sweet baby girl Adriana in her Story (my Story Under the Skye of Carthage) is mother of three Little lions (she is pregnant in this draw)

The story of Adriana Nerva takes place after the First Punic War in a political marriage as a means of building bridges between Rome and Carthage after the First Punic War, she is forced to marry a general named Hannibal (NOT the historical Hannibal) a marriage that begins as pure politics but love arises between two totally different people and from opposing cultures. In addition, Adriana has to live in a post-war Carthage being Roman and having to live through the Mercenary War. Meanwhile, she and Hannibal create a family: her eldest son Sikarbaal, her middle daughter Elishat and the youngest (Adriana in the drawing is pregnant with the latter) Hamilcar.

It is a story that I have been working on for a long time and I love very much and I hope at some point to be able to publish it in physical form.

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La bataille du Macar (The Battle of the Macar) by Georges Rochegrosse

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The Wikipedia article of the day for January 15, 2021 is Mercenary War. The Mercenary War, also known as the Truceless War, was a mutiny by troops employed by Carthage at the end of the First Punic War (264 to 241 BC), backed by an uprising of African settlements against Carthaginian control. The war began in 241 BC as a dispute over wages owed to 20,000 foreign soldiers. It erupted into a full-scale mutiny that included 70,000 Africans from Carthage's oppressed dependent territories, bringing supplies and finance. The Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca initially demonstrated leniency to woo the rebels over, but pursued the war with great brutality after they tortured 700 Carthaginian prisoners to death. It ended in late 238 or early 237 BC with a Carthaginian victory. An expedition was then prepared to reoccupy Sardinia, where all Carthaginians had been killed. However, Rome declared that this would be an act of war and occupied both Sardinia and Corsica, in contravention of the recent peace treaty. (This article is part of a featured topic: Punic Wars.)

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Wikipedia article of the day for January 15, 2021

The Wikipedia article of the day for January 15, 2021 is Mercenary War. The Mercenary War, also known as the Truceless War, was a mutiny by troops employed by Carthage at the end of the First Punic War (264 to 241 BC), backed by an uprising of African settlements against Carthaginian control. The war began in 241 BC as a dispute over wages owed to 20,000 foreign soldiers. It erupted into a full-scale mutiny that included 70,000 Africans from Carthage's oppressed dependent territories, bringing supplies and finance. The Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca initially demonstrated leniency to woo the rebels over, but pursued the war with great brutality after they tortured 700 Carthaginian prisoners to death. It ended in late 238 or early 237 BC with a Carthaginian victory. An expedition was then prepared to reoccupy Sardinia, where all Carthaginians had been killed. However, Rome declared that this would be an act of war and occupied both Sardinia and Corsica, in contravention of the recent peace treaty. (This article is part of a featured topic: Punic Wars.)

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Mercenary War 241 BC part 2

Mercenary War 241 BC part 2

Continued from Part 1 of The Mercenary Wars

239 B.C.

Carthage now has 5 activations a turn with Hamilcar & Hanno present with the 2nd chit (LAM). The 2nd Carthage  Army led by Hamilcar also has about 50 Elephants and thousands of cavalry.

Mathos assaults Thisbrus and clears the township! Antaritus invests Tacape.

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