Siege of Tunis (Mercenary War)
The Carthaginian army mutinied in late 241 BC in the wake of Carthage’s defeat in the First Punic War. After three years of increasingly bitter war, the Carthaginians defeated the rebel field army at the Battle of the Saw. At the Siege of Tunis in late 238 BC a rebel army under Mathos was besieged by a Carthaginia force under...