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- In 218 BC Rome controlled Italy, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily. The Carthaginians held the North African coast and parts of Spain.
- In 217 and 216 BC Hannibal dealt the Romans two serious blows by defeating them on their home ground at Lake Trasimene and Cannae.
- After the defeat at Cannae the majority of Rome's southern Italian allies defected to the Carthaginians.
- In 208 BC Scipio launched a counter offensive by attacking the Carthaginian base in Spain.
- Hasdrubal, Hannibal's brother suffered a serious defeat at the Metaurus river in 207 BC.
- In 204 BC Scipio attacked the Carthaginians in the heart of their own territory in Africa.
- In 202 BC Hannibal was defeated at Zama.
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