Editing 219 BC (section)

==== Iberian Peninsula ====
* [[Hannibal]] lays [[siege of Saguntum|siege to Saguntum]]<ref>Gavin De Beer, ''Hannibal: Challenging Rome's Supremacy'', 1969, Viking Press, 319 pages</ref> thus initiating the [[Second Punic War]] between [[Ancient Carthage|Carthage]] and Rome. Saguntum is an independent [[Iberian Peninsula]] city south of the [[Ebro River]]. In the treaty between Rome and Carthage concluded in [[226 BC]], the Ebro had been set as the northern limit of Carthaginian influence in the Iberian Peninsula. Saguntum is south of the Ebro, but the Romans have "friendship" with the city and regard the Carthaginian attack on it as an act of war. The siege of Saguntum lasts eight months, and in it Hannibal is severely wounded. The Romans, who send envoys to Carthage in protest, demand the surrender of Hannibal.