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The '''[[battle of New Carthage]]''', part of the [[Second Punic War]], took place in early 209&nbsp;<!-- expanded to avoid transcluding extra templates on main page -->BC when a [[Roman Republic|Roman]] army under [[Scipio Africanus|Publius Scipio]] ''(bust pictured)'' assaulted [[Cartagena, Spain|New Carthage]], held by a [[Ancient Carthage|Carthaginian]] garrison under Mago. Late in 210&nbsp;BC Scipio took command of Roman forces in Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal) and decided to strike at the regional centre of Carthaginian power: its capital, New Carthage. He marched on the city and immediately attacked it. After defeating a Carthaginian force outside the [[Defensive wall|walls]], he pressed attacks on the east [[gate]] and the walls. Both were repulsed, but later that day Scipio renewed them. Hard-pressed, Mago moved men from the north wall, overlooking a broad, shallow [[lagoon]]. Anticipating this, a force of 500 men waded the lagoon to scale the north wall unopposed. They fought their way to the east gate, opened it from inside and let in their comrades. The city fell and<!-- reworded as the subject of "the city fell" is not the force that waded the lagoon --> became a logistics centre for the Roman war effort. By 206&nbsp;BC the Carthaginians had been expelled from Iberia. {{TFAFULL|Battle of New Carthage}}

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