 Rambai muchinyora ndima ino - Kukunda kweRoma Corsica kwakatanga muna 259 BC, apo Lucius Cornelius Scipio akabata Aleria chiGiriki Alalia uye madzinza akati wandei eCorsican, munguva yeHondo yekutanga yePunic. Kupinda kweRoma muchitsuwa chacho kwakaratidza kuwedzera kwehondo kupfuura Sicily kusvika kumadokero ose eMediterranean. Muchibvumirano cherunyararo chakazotevera muna 241 BC pakati pevaRoma nevaCarthage vakakundwa, pakanga pasina chiratidzo chekuti Corsica kana Sardinia yaizopinda munharaunda yeRoma. Asi, sezvo vaCarthage vakanga vakabatikana nehondo yevarwi, vakanga vasina mano okuvadzivirira, kunyange apo nyongano dzakapararira kuchitsuwa cheCarthage cheSardinia. Pakupedzisira, vaRoma vakabata zviwi zvose zviri zviviri. Hazvina kujeka chose chose kana kudzora uku kwakatanga muna 241 BC, asi zviri pachena kuti mupurisa we2387, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, akawedzera kutonga kwavo pamusoro peCorsica neSardinia, zvirinani mupfungwa. 