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- Hasdrubal Gisco
commits suicide to avoid being lynched by a Carthaginian mob.
- October 19
? The
Battle of Zama
ends the
Second Punic War
and largely destroys the power of Carthage. Roman and
Numidian
forces under the laedership of the Roman general
Publius Cornelius Scipio
and his Numidian ally,
Masinissa
, defeat a combined army of Carthaginians and their Numidian allies under the command of
Hannibal
and forces Carthage to capitulate. Hannibal loses 20,000 men in the defeat, but he is able to escape Masinissa's pursuit.