ntinued
to burn until at last it accomplished the entire and irretrievable
destruction of Carthage. This was effected in a third and final war
between the Carthaginians and the Romans, which is known in history as
the third Punic war. With a narrative of the events of this war,
ending, as it did, in the total destruction of the city, we shall
close this history of Hannibal.

It will be recollected that the war which Hannibal himself waged
against Rome was the second in the series, the contest in which
Regulus figured so prominently having been the first. The one whose
history is now to be given is the third. The reader will distinctly
understand the chronological relations of these contests by the
following table:

TABLE.

+------+--------------------------------------+-------------+
| Date | | |
| B.C. | Events. | Punic Wars. |
+------+--------------------------------------+-------------+
| | | |
| 264 | War commenced in Sicily } | |
| | } | |
| 262 | Naval battles in the Mediterranean } | I. |
| | } | |
| 249 | Regulus sent prisoner to Rome } | 24 years. |
| | } | |
| 241 | Peace concluded } | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | Peace for 24 years. | |
| | | |
| | | |
| 217 | Hannibal attacks Saguntum } | |
| | } | |
| 218 | Crosses the Alps } | II. |
| | } | |
| 216 | Battle of Cannae } | 17 years. |
| | } | |
| 205 | Is conquered by Scipio } | |
| | } | |
| 200 | Peace concluded } | |
| | |