zama

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noun the battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War

The only reply he gave was to exclaim, "This is the day of the victory of Zama. — Young Folks' History of Rome, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
The disheartened and frequently defeated African militia joined it, and, at the battle of Zama, composed the greater part of the troops of Annibal. — An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
No rumour of this event ever reached Malchus, but he heard, fifteen years after he had passed into Germany, that Hannibal had at last retired from Italy, and had been defeated at Zama, and that Carthage had been obliged to submit to conditions which placed her at the mercy of Rome. — The Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of Hannibal, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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