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Zama

noun
1.
The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.  Synonym: battle of Zama.






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"Zama" Quotes from Famous Books



... subsequently built the great city of Carthage, near to where Tunis, in Africa, is now situated. They were again overthrown and their city destroyed by Scipio Africanus Secundus, after the battle of Zama. But, during one of the sieges, the city being invested by the Romans, the people became hard pressed for provisions, to supply which, they resolved on building some ships, to run the blockade for provisions. But after their ...
— The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. • Buckner H. 'Ariel' Payne



Words linked to "Zama" :   Tunisia, pitched battle, Republic of Tunisia, Punic War



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