I was just watching part of the movie Patton on TV and a line uttered by George C. Scott leapt out at me that is quite obviously wrong. I seriously doubt that the real General George S. Patton Jr. was so historically illiterate to have made such an obvious mistake as to refer to Carthage era North African women as Arabs. (my bold emphasis added)

Patton: "It was here. The battlefield was here. The Carthaginians defending the city were attacked by three Roman Legions. Carthaginians were proud and brave but they couldn't hold. They were massacred. Arab women stripped them of their tunics and their swords and lances. The soldiers lay naked in the sun, two thousand years ago; and I was here."

Arabs in North Africa during the era of the early Roman Empire? Arabic as a language didn't even exist yet. Arab military expeditions into the Maghrib (or Maghreb) began around 642 AD. By contrast, the three Punic Wars between Roman and Carthage were between 264 BC to 241 BC, 218 BC to 201 BC, and 149 BC to 146 BC with Carthage gettting sacked in the second and third wars. So Patton was referring to a sacking (not sure which one - anyone know which sacking involved 3 Roman Legions?) event that was several hundred years before there was an Arab influence in North Africa.