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Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.), Sketch of the principal maritime expeditions. (search)
a naval victory, gained at Myonnesus in Ionia by the Romans, united to the Rhodians against the fleet of Antiochus. From that time the Romans, having no more rivals, augmented their power with all the influence which the empire of the sea assures. Paulus Aemilius made a descent upon Samothrace at the head of twenty-five thousand men, (168 years B. C.,) conquered Persia and subjected Macedonia. Twenty years later, the third Punic War decided the fate of Carthage; the important port of Utica having given itself up unreservedly to the Romans, an immense armament, departed from Lilybaeum, and immediately transported there eighty thousand infantry and four thousand horse; siege was laid to Carthage, and the son of Paulus Aemilius, adopted by the great Scipio, had the glory of finishing the victory of his fathers, by destroying that bitter rival of the Romans. After this triumph, Rome ruled in Africa as well as in Europe; but its empire was momentarily shaken in Asia by Mithradat