Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus led a very distinguished life and was one of the greatest Roman generals that ever lived, gaining victory over Hannibal at Zama and thereby ending the Second Punic War. From the time he was given the command of an army when he was 25, after the disastrous defeats of the Romans at Ticinus, Trebia, and Cannae, he never lost a battle, earning the agnomen Africanus “The African” after Zama. Without him Rome very probably would have lost the war as Mago, Hasdrubal Barca, and Hasdrubal Gisco would have brought their armies to bear on Rome’s northern frontier through Hispania while Hannibal ravaged the interior of Italy unchecked.

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