commander, 6 engagements

Battles of Scipio Africanus

Roman general and politician (236/235–183 BC), 235 BC to 183 BC

Scipio Africanus is recorded as a commander at 6 placed engagements in the atlas between 209 BC and 202 BC: 5 battles and 1 siege across 2 present-day countries, most in Spain (4), Tunisia (2). Taken in date order, the sites lie 1,972 km apart end to end, 394 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Second Punic War (6).

6 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

6 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Second Punic War 6

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
209 BC	Battle of New Carthage	Qart Hadasht, Spain		Roman victory
208 BC	Battle of Baecula	Santo Tomé, Spain	192 km W	Roman victory
207 BC	Battle of Carmona	Carmona, Spain	231 km W	Roman victory
206 BC	Battle of Ilipa	Ilipa, Spain	31 km W	Roman victory
204 BC	Siege of Utica	Utica, Tunisia	1,418 km E	Carthaginian victory
19 October 202 BC	Battle of Zama	Zama Regia, Tunisia	100 km SW	Roman victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Miguel Hermoso Cuesta, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.