Ancient Carthage the site of the city. Nearly all of the other Phoenician city-states and former Carthaginian dependencies subsequently fell into Roman hands. According to Roman sources, Phoenician colonists from modern-day Lebanon, led by Dido (also known as Queen Elissa), founded Carthage "circa" 814 BC. Queen Elissa (also known as "Alissar") was an exiled princess of the ancient Phoenician city of Tyre. At its peak, the metropolis she founded, Carthage, came to be called the "shining city", ruling 300 other cities around the western Mediterranean Sea and leading the Phoenician world. Elissa's brother, Pygmalion of Tyre, had murdered Elissa's husband, the high
HMS Dido (1784) of her guns burst. "Dido" was the only ship of the Mediterranean Fleet to exchange fire with French ships during Martin's cruise of 1794, but was unable to prevent the French escaping into Gourjean Bay. "Dido" captured "Révolution", a French vessel possibly a navy corvette, on 8 October 1794 off Porto Mauruzio between Nice and Genoa. "Dido" captured the xebec "Témėraire" on 14 March 1795. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS "Temeraire", later renamed to HMS "Transfer". Admiral Hotham sent "Dido" under Captain George Henry Towry and , a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate under Captain Robert Middleton, to