| 1. | The Drepana defeat so demoralized the Romans that they waited seven years before building another fleet.
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| 2. | The Romans attempted to reroute all trade away from the city in an effort to isolate Drepana.
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| 3. | The battle resulted in a Roman retreat from the siege after the destruction of their fleet at Drepana.
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| 4. | Adherbal had similar, though less controversial, quick thoughts and ordered the evacuation of Drepana before the blockade was unavoidable.
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| 5. | Shortly after the defeat at Drepana, another Roman fleet under the second new consul, Lucius Junius C . f.
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| 6. | It was originally named Drepana or " Dr�panon " from the Battle of the Aegates in the First Punic War.
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| 7. | The access by land to Drepana was controlled by Mount Eryx and was contested by both armies with the Romans eventually prevailing.
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| 8. | Drepana and Lilybaeum ( today Marsala ) were two Carthaginian naval strongholds on the western end of Sicily that came under prolonged Roman attack.
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| 9. | His landing at Heirkte ( near Panormus ) drew the Romans away to defend that port city and resupply point and gave Drepana some breathing room.
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| 10. | Carthage's ships thus sailed out of Drepana, passing south of the city and around two small islands in the coast to the open sea.
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