He allied himself with the Roman general Scipio Africanus against Hannibal during the second Punic war. Massinissa was instrumental in the ultimate destruction of Carthage at the hands of the ...

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.