The Battle of Agrigentum (Sicily, 262 BCE) was the first pitched battle of the First Punic War and the first large-scale military confrontation between Carthage and the Roman Republic. The battle was fought after a long siege which started in 262 BCE and resulted both in a Roman victory and the beginning of Roman control of Sicily.
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