Battle of Tyndaris

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Battle of Tyndaris
Part of the Punic Wars
Date 257 BC Location Tindarys, Sicily Result Roman victory
Combatants
Rome	Carthage
Commanders
Marcus Atilius Regulus	Unknown

First Punic War
Messina - Agrigentum – Lipari Islands – Mylae – Sulci – Tyndaris – Cape Ecnomus – Adys – Tunis – Panormus – Drepana – Lillybaeum - Drepana - Mt Ercte - 1st Mt Eryx - Tarentum - 2nd Mt Eryx - Aegates Islands

The Battle of Tyndaris is a naval battle of the First Punic War, which took place off Tyndaris (modern Tindari) in 257 BC. Tyndaris was a Sicilian town founded as a Greek colony in 396 BC located on the high ground overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea in the Gulf of Patti. Hiero II, tyrant of Syracuse, allowed Tyndaris to become a base for the Carthaginians; however, after this battle, which took place in the waters between Tyndaris and the Aeolian Islands, with Marcus Atilius Regulus at the command of the Roman fleet, the town fell to Rome. Hiero II subsequently became a faithful ally of Rome.

This naval engagement was followed by the battle of Cape Ecnomus.