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Battle of Ebro River
Battle of Ebro River was a naval battle fought between a Carthaginian fleet of approximately 40 quinqueremes under Himilco and a Roman fleet of 55 ships under Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus near the mouth of Ebro river in the spring of 217 BC. Hasdrubal Barca, the Carthaginian commander in Spain, had launched a joint expidition to destroy the Romans established north of the Ebro.
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