The Roman general Scipio and Carthaginian Hannibal dueled with each other during the last years of the third century B.C., the final phase of what we now know as the Second Punic War.

A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.

Illustration of a Hannibal and Carthaginians Despoiling Dead Romans after Battle of Cannae During Second Punic War SECOND PUNIC WAR : the Roman general and statesman Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus ...

Taken completely by surprise, Rome sent two consular armies to face Hannibal. The first under Publius Cornelius Scipio was routed with relative ease at the Battle of Ticinus. Hannibal similarly ...

Hannibal Barca ( 247 - between 183 and 181 BC ) was a general and statesman from Ancient Carthage who is widely considered one of the greatest military commanders in history Original edition from my ...