The 

Mercenary War, also known as the Truceless War, was a mutiny by troops employed by Carthage at the end of
Punic War (264 to 241 BC), backed by an uprising of African settlements against Carthaginian control. The war bega
241 BC as a dispute over wages owed to 20,000 foreign soldiers. It erupted into a full-scale mutiny that included 70,0
Africans from Carthage's oppressed dependent territories, bringing supplies and finance. The Carthaginian general H
Barca initially demonstrated leniency to woo the rebels over, but pursued the war with great brutality after they torture
Carthaginian prisoners to death. It ended in late 238 or early 237 BC with a Carthaginian victory. An expedition was t
prepared to reoccupy Sardinia, where all Carthaginians had been killed. However, Rome declared that this would be
war and occupied both Sardinia and Corsica, in contravention of the recent peace treaty. (This article is part of a fea
topic: Punic Wars.)
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