Battle of "The Saw"
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The <entity_0> was the culminating <entity_4> of a campaign fought between a Carthaginian army led by Hamilcar Barca and a rebel force led by Spendius in 238 BC in what is now northern <entity_3>. <entity_2> was fighting a coalition of mutinous soldiers and rebellious African cities in the <entity_1> which had started in 240 BC. The three years of war that followed are known as the <entity_1> and threatened <entity_2>'s existence as a state. The main rebel force blockaded <entity_2> from their stronghold of <entity_5>, while Mathos ordered two groups of rebels north to besiege the two main cities – other than <entity_2> – that had not already rebelled: the major ports of Utica and Hippo (modern Bizerte). In early 238 BC the lack of supplies forced Mathos to lift the close siege of <entity_2>; he maintained a more distant blockade from <entity_5>. The rebel field army which commenced the campaign is estimated to have been about 50,000 strong, leaving the 20,000-man balance of their force to continue blockading <entity_2> from their stronghold of <entity_5>.
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