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What the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio did was to to take the war to North Africa by threating Carthage itself around 203 BCE, having even won a battle some 32 kilometers from the city that was Rome archrival. Hannibal and his brother Mago were recalled from their campigns in Italy to organize the defense of the city. Scipio and Hanibal fought a last great battle in Zama in 202 BCE, in which the Romans and their allies crushed the Carthaginian army under Hannibal´s command. Hard terms - huge indemnities, burning of a great number of ships and others - were impose on Carthage. It was the end of the Second Punic War and of Carthage´s challenge to Rome.
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