The Battle of Carthage

Scipio got greedy and decided to attack a small coastal city while he waited for the rest of the fleet. The carthaginians watched with amusement as scipio foolishly led all 17 of his ships into a harbor they could easily trap him in. When the morning came, scipio's little was bottled up by a much larger carthaginian force. As the carthaginia advanced, the newly minted roman sailors lost their nerve and abandoned ship. The 17 ships were all lost, and scipio himself was taken prisoner. He would eventually be handed over in a prisoner exchanged and resume his career. But he never shook the memory of presiding over r