Although the spontaneous candidate had not had time to make the necessary charges career that he could deliver the command of an army, the people supported him warmly and the Senate had the wisdom to accept and confirm his appointment as supreme commander with the rank of proconsul. So he was sent to Spain at the head of the legions that had to complete the troops who still resisted the northern Ebro 210 In autumn Emporion reached the general's son who had died burned in a watchtower. From now on we will call it - not confuse - Scipio Africanus, a title he devoted his contemporaries after his victory over Carthage.
the African came with the July Framework propraetor Silano. With 16,000 troops that landed them, together with those already in Hispania and Iberian subsidiary, formed an army of 35,000 men.
Meanwhile, the Carthaginians had their forces scattered throughout the country, either for the rebellion of the Indians, either because they were confident that the Romans would soon raise its head after the last debacle .... but the Carthaginians were wrong: Scipio Africanus had been eager for revenge.
After concentrating his troops in Tarraco, spent the winter to train them for the next campaign rimaveral. At 209, the Roman army crossed the Ebro and in 7 days came to Carthage. It was an amazing place, over 70 km per day with 16-hour days at the foot of uninterrupted progress. At the same time, the fleet commanded by Gaius Laelius, was moving parallel to the coast. Finally
Scipio gave the order to attack Carthage by the wall that looked to the ground. While the Carthaginians were concentrating their forces in that sector, the fleet, taking advantage of low tide, unloaded its troops on the side Stripping of the city. Scipio had told his soldiers that Neptune had shown him in a dream, how to take over the plaza. And it was ...
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