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.

Although not winning all of the battles that followed in Italy, the Romans never gave Hannibal a chance for a decisive victory. Meanwhile, Scipio later famed as Africanus -- secured control of Spain ...

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.

With a flourish worthy of Scipio Africanus, Pietro Badoglio, Marshal of Italy and Governor of the colonies of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica (now known as Italian Libya), reported to II Duce last week ...

In this coin he commemorates his ancestor L. Cornelius Scipio, the son of Scipio Africanus who defeated Antiochus of Syria at Mount Sipylus in 190 BCE. When he returned to Rome, he was given the title ...