Talk:Battle of the Saw

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 * Hanno and Hamilcar marched after the rebels with an army totalling over 25,000 men and a large number of war elephants, including every Carthaginian citizen of military age. At the ensuing battle the rebels were crushed.
 * He was only saved from destruction when an African leader, Naravas, who had served with and admired Hamilcar in Sicily, swapped sides with his 2,000 cavalry. This proved disastrous for the rebels, and in the resulting battle they lost 10,000 killed and 4,000 captured.
 * They attempted to hold out, but Polybius says that they too "quickly" surrendered, probably in late 238 BC or very early 237 BC. The surrendered towns and cities were treated leniently, although Carthaginian governors were imposed on them.
 * Carthage was fighting a coalition of mutinous soldiers and rebellious African cities in the Mercenary War which had started in 240 BC.
 * The Carthaginians then attacked the leaderless, starving rebels with their whole force, led by their elephants, and they were massacred to a man.

Content balance
Although this article—a featured article—is titled "Battle of the Saw", there is very little about the actual battle in it. Instead, there are many sections and paragraphs about the First Punic War, the Mercenary War (itself a featured article three months ago), the campaigning that led to the battle, and discussion of the armies involved. The battle itself is disposed of in three sentences. The "aftermath" section alone has that many paragraphs. I have to submit that this article, as it currently stands, could very well be merged with the article about the war. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 17:29, 21 April 2021 (UTC)