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).
Engagements by year
In time order
Wars 1
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.