
023e- The War With Hannibal
The History of Rome
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Scipio's North African Invasion
In 205 BC Scipio went before the Senate and pitched his idea of a North African invasion. The time had come he argued to return to the original strategy abandoned at the outset of the war. Hannibal would not be driven off by direct action. But Scipio was not without detractors in the Senate. Chief amongst them Old Marcus Fabius, now 70 years old. What Scipio pitched was the exact opposite of everything Fabius stood for.
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