Who really should have won the Second Punic War?

Originally posted by Tigerfire
Carthage should have! They had everything going for them-they had at least three active armies in Europe and one was a general who had had complete control of the Italian Peninsula for fourteen years. Many of Rome's allies had deserted her.

Fortunately the Roman general, Scipio Africanus, was more than a match for them.

Originally posted by Leon Alvarado
Fortunately the Roman general, Scipio Africanus, was more than a match for them.

He beat Patton too.

Originally posted by expuddlepirate
The anceint celts had a practice of defeat, plunder and move on. I think thevalue of that was not having the overhead and drain on the forces of an occupation. However the fault of the celts on the other hand was their lack of a unified national unity. Vercengetorix came too late as being a central ruler.

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Originally posted by expuddlepirate
He beat Patton too.

Gen. Patton believed that he fought in that war in a past life and even wrote a poem about the battle.