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Cut from BBC movie "Hannibal – Rome's Worst Nightmare" 2006.

The Battle of Zama—fought in 202 BC near Zama (Tunisia)—marked the end of the Second Punic War. A Roman army led by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (Scipio), with crucial support from Numidian leader Masinissa, defeated the Carthaginian army led by the commander Hannibal. Hannibal's force was greater in numbers than Scipio's, and he had eighty war elephants. However, many in Hannibal's army were recent conscripts, and the Romans had superior cavalry, as most of the vaunted Numidian cavalry which Hannibal had employed with great success in Italy had by then switched sides to the Romans.

Scipio's troops did not mass together to oppose the elephants, but instead blew their horns loudly, opened their ranks to let the elephants charge through, and pelted the elephants with missiles, confusing and defeating them. His main force then routed the Carthaginian infantry, assisted by the cavalry who had pursued the Carthaginian cavalry off the field and returned to attack the infantry force. Defeated on their home ground, the Carthaginian ruling elite sued for peace and accepted humiliating terms, ending the 17-year war.