The Battle of Bagradas, the Bagradas, or the Bagradas River (the ancient name of the
Medjerda
The Medjerda River ( ar, وادي مجردة), the classical Bagrada, is a river in North Africa flowing from northeast Algeria through Tunisia before emptying into the Gulf of Tunis and Lake of Tunis. With a length of , it is the longest river ...
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Battle of the Bagradas River (255 BC)
The Battle of the Bagradas River (the ancient name of the Medjerda), also known as the Battle of Tunis, was a victory by a Carthaginian army led by Xanthippus over a Roman army led by Marcus Atilius Regulus in the spring of 255 BC, nine years ...
, also known as the Battle of Tunis, during the First Punic War
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Battle of the Bagradas River (240 BC)
The Battle of the Bagradas River was fought between a Carthaginian army led by Hamilcar Barca and a rebel force led by Spendius in 240 BC in what is now north-east Tunisia. Carthage was fighting a coalition of mutinous soldiers and rebelliou ...
, also known as the Battle of the Macar, during the Mercenary War
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Battle of the Bagradas River (203 BC)
The Battle of the Great Plains ( la, Campi Magni) was a battle between a Roman army commanded by Scipio Africanus and a combined Carthaginian-Numidian army late in the Second Punic War. It was fought on the plains south of Bulla Regia around the ...
, usually known as the Battle of the Great Plains, during the Second Punic War
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Battle of the Bagradas River (49 BC)
The Battle of the Bagradas (49 BC) occurred near the Bagradas River (the classical name of the Medjerda) in what is now Tunisia on 24 August and was fought between Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio and the Pompeian Republicans unde ...
, a battle during the Roman civil war between Caesar and Pompey
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Battle of the Bagradas River (536)
The Battle of the River Medjerda River, Bagradas or Battle of Membresa was an engagement in 536 AD between Byzantine Empire, Byzantine forces under Belisarius and rebel forces under Stotzas.{{Cite book, title=Rome resurgent: war and empire in the ...
, a battle between the rebel leader Stotzas and Byzantine commander Belisarius
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