Second Punic War (1 gen 218 anni a. C. – 1 gen 202 anni a. C.)

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"In 221 B.C.E., Hamilcar’s son Hannibal became the Carthaginian commander in Spain and laid siege to Saguntum (suh-GUHN-tum), a Roman-allied city that lay within the sphere of Carthaginian interest and was making raids into Carthaginian territories. The Romans declared war, claiming that Carthage had attacked a city friendly to Rome. So began the Second Punic War. In 218 B.C.E., Hannibal marched an army of tens of thousands of troops — and, more famously, several dozen war elephants — from Spain across what is now France and over the Alps into Italy. Once there, he defeated one Roman army after another and, in 216 B.C.E., he won his greatest victory at the Battle of Cannae..."

"Rome also fought back, and in 210 B.C.E. it found a counterpart to Hannibal in the young commander Scipio Africanus (SKIP-ee-oh af-rih-KAHN-us). Scipio copied Hannibal’s methods of mobile warfare and guerrilla tactics and made more extensive use of cavalry than had earlier Roman commanders. He battled first in Spain, which in 207 B.C.E. he wrested from the Carthaginians. That same year, the Romans sealed Hannibal’s fate at the Battle of Metaurus, where they destroyed a major Carthaginian army coming to reinforce Hannibal. Scipio then struck directly at Carthage itself, prompting the Carthaginians to recall Hannibal from Italy to defend their homeland.
In 202 B.C.E., at the town of Zama near Carthage (Map 5.2), Scipio defeated Hannibal in a decisive battle. The Carthaginians sued for peace and in 201 B.C.E. the Roman Senate agreed, on terms that were very favorable to the Romans."

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