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Word: messana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1943-1943
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...sight of 100 Roman galleys standing out from Syracusae (TIME, Ides of Maius, 211 B.C.). Bomilcar said the wind had been against him. His fellow Carthaginians knew the coward had lost the last chance to break the flow of Roman strength where Scylla & Charybdis guard the narrow straits between Messana and Rhegium on the mainland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle Of Sicily: Wings Needed | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

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