This is an incomplete list of battles of the Second Punic War, showing the battles on the Italian peninsula and some in Africa, in Sicily and Hispania. * 218 BC * Summer: Battle of Lilybaeum – A Roman fleet of 20 quinqueremes defeated a Carthaginian fleet of 35 galleys. * Capture of Malta – Roman army under Tiberius Sempronius Longus conquers the Carthaginian-held island of Malta. * August – Hannibal conquered Catalonia. * September- Hannibal defeated the Gaul Volcae tribe in the Battle of Rhone Crossing. * October: Hannibal's army defeated Gauls in two battles while crossing the Alps. * November: Battle of the Ticinus – Hannibal defeated the Romans under Publius Cornelius Scipio the Elder in a small cavalry skirmish. * December: Battle of the Trebia – Hannibal defeated the Romans