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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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. Hasdrubal had been quick to note the arrivalof the reinforcements and had fallen back, out was surprised by a flank attackof Nero, totally routed, and killed (b.c. ;!07). Wheeling about, Nero movedswiftly toward Hannibal. The latter still had no knowledge of the arrival ofhis brother from Spain. Hardly had Nero appeared, when a soldier flung thehead of a man into the Carthaginian lines. When it was picked up and exam-ined, it was recognized as that of Hasdrubai. It was the beginning of the end. Hannibal must have seen that sooner orlater he would be obliged to withdraw from Italy; but he held his ground atthe extremity of the peninsula for a long time, and it is not impossible that hemight have stayed indefinitely, had not the Romans made a radical change intheir policy. It was decided by the Senate, in B.C. 205, in answer to the ur-gent insistence of Publius Scipio, who had made himself master of Spain, thatan army should be sent against Carthage, while Hannibal was still in Italy.
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Rome—Scipio Defeats Hannibal 339 This would b2 carrying the war into Africa, of which we often hear in thesedays. Scipio was highly educated, refined, possessed of consummate military ge-nius, and so popular, not only with his own countrymen, but with others, thatit was said of him that wherever he set foot he could have established himselfas king. The Senate did not consent to his plan of invading Africa until hethreatened to appeal to the people, who would not have been denied. Scipiolanded in Africa in B.C. 204, and laid siege to Utica, but was unsuccessful andsuffered the loss of his fleet. With the story of this campaign is interwoven one of the most pathetic ro-mances in history. You will recall Masinissa, the young African king, whohad joined Scipio in Spain to revenge the giving of his beloved Sophonisba tohis rival, Syphax. Syphax was still an ally of the Carthaginians; Masinissatherefore clung to the Romans, and united his forces once more with those ofScipio. Their combin

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