• The Romans sent out 60,000 troops to Cannae to defeat Hannibal
• Hannibal took his troops through the Alps and the Pyrenees mountains
• He brought elephants with him to help him
• His father made him take an oath to always hate the Romans
• This was one of the greatest loses in the history of battles
• Hannibal won all the battles but he can't win the war
• He never sieged the city of Rome
• In the battle of Zama Hannibal attacks first with the war elephants
• The Romans let the elephants come in and then they blew horns to scare the elephants
• They headed back into the Carthaginian line
• The Romans are victorious at this battle
• Scipio becomes so famous that they give him the title Africanus
• This was 100 miles south of Carthage
• Hannibal hadn't lost a single battle
• The Romans sieged Carthage
• Scipio Aemilianus is the son of the other guy
• He sieges Carthage in the third Punic war and then spreads salt so nothing can grow there anymore
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