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207 BC part 1.
207 BC part 1
Hannibal left a detachment of 8,000 troops to garrison the newly conquered region and departed from Cathago Nova in spring of 207 BC. After a small siege he conquered Akrotiri. Then he fought his way through the Massaliot League allied northern tribes to the foothills of the Pyrenees, subduing the tribes through clever mountain tactics and stubborn fighting. At the Pyrenees, he released 5,000 Iberian troops who showed reluctance to leave their homeland. Hannibal reportedly entered South Gaul with thirty four thousands foot soldiers and seven thousands horsemen.
Hannibal's march brought him into the heartland of the League’s territory and frustrated the attempts of the enemy to fight out the main issue on foreign ground. The League army under Nikephoros was rushed to Emporion and the federal council had ordered the League’s army in Italy to make peace with Rome and bring his army back from Italy.
Italy theatre
The League with Hannibal on her heartlands decided to accept the Roman offer for peace and lift the siege of Rome.
Although Hannibal was near, the end of the war with Rome did not meet with a universal welcome in Massalia. When the federal council decreed upon a peace treaty with Rome, Alkiviadis, a former general, said he did not look upon the termination of the war as a blessing to Massalia, since he feared that if Rome was not completely destroyed it would soon regain its power and pose new threats to the League, he pressed for harsher peace-conditions. Even after the peace, Alkiviadis insisted on the destruction of Rome, ending all his speeches with “Rome must be destroyed”, even if they had nothing to do with Rome.
In the peace agreement Rome lost South Italy,Cisalpine Gaul and the League firmly established her power there over large areas(via vassals). The league imposed a war indemnity of 10,000 talents, limited the Roman navy to 5 ships (to ward off pirates), and forbade Rome from raising an army without the League permission. The League, on the other hand, by her victory, had taken a key step towards what ultimately became her domination of the west Mediterranean world. The Meagale Hellas League,by popular demand of their democratic assembly, was disbanded and joined as new members of the Massaliot League. A new nomes under the jurisdiction of Syracuse was formed. A new company/political party Neoi was formed also, representing Megale Hellas polis. Taratnum/Taranto(a former Spartan colony) and the near by area decided to join the Spartan Kingdom.
Iberia theatre
The dynatoi expedition in Africa left a detachment of five thousands in Lixus nomes and departed for Orestiko were another tagma from Asturica together with fifteen thousand Callaeci and Vaccaei tribes allied troops waiting to join them.
Hannibal left a detachment of 8,000 troops to garrison the newly conquered region and departed from Cathago Nova in spring of 207 BC. After a small siege he conquered Akrotiri. Then he fought his way through the Massaliot League allied northern tribes to the foothills of the Pyrenees, subduing the tribes through clever mountain tactics and stubborn fighting. At the Pyrenees, he released 5,000 Iberian troops who showed reluctance to leave their homeland. Hannibal reportedly entered South Gaul with thirty four thousands foot soldiers and seven thousands horsemen.
Hannibal's march brought him into the heartland of the League’s territory and frustrated the attempts of the enemy to fight out the main issue on foreign ground. The League army under Nikephoros was rushed to Emporion and the federal council had ordered the League’s army in Italy to make peace with Rome and bring his army back from Italy.
Italy theatre
The League with Hannibal on her heartlands decided to accept the Roman offer for peace and lift the siege of Rome.
Although Hannibal was near, the end of the war with Rome did not meet with a universal welcome in Massalia. When the federal council decreed upon a peace treaty with Rome, Alkiviadis, a former general, said he did not look upon the termination of the war as a blessing to Massalia, since he feared that if Rome was not completely destroyed it would soon regain its power and pose new threats to the League, he pressed for harsher peace-conditions. Even after the peace, Alkiviadis insisted on the destruction of Rome, ending all his speeches with “Rome must be destroyed”, even if they had nothing to do with Rome.
In the peace agreement Rome lost South Italy,Cisalpine Gaul and the League firmly established her power there over large areas(via vassals). The league imposed a war indemnity of 10,000 talents, limited the Roman navy to 5 ships (to ward off pirates), and forbade Rome from raising an army without the League permission. The League, on the other hand, by her victory, had taken a key step towards what ultimately became her domination of the west Mediterranean world. The Meagale Hellas League,by popular demand of their democratic assembly, was disbanded and joined as new members of the Massaliot League. A new nomes under the jurisdiction of Syracuse was formed. A new company/political party Neoi was formed also, representing Megale Hellas polis. Taratnum/Taranto(a former Spartan colony) and the near by area decided to join the Spartan Kingdom.
Iberia theatre
The dynatoi expedition in Africa left a detachment of five thousands in Lixus nomes and departed for Orestiko were another tagma from Asturica together with fifteen thousand Callaeci and Vaccaei tribes allied troops waiting to join them.
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