Career
He sailed with his army from Pisa with the intention of confronting Hannibal in Hispania. Stopping at Massilia (today Marseille) to replenish his supplies, he was shocked to discover that Hannibal"s army had moved from Hispania and was crossing the Rhône. Scipio disembarked his army and marched to confront Hannibal, who, by now, had moved on.
Scipio returned to Italy to take command of the troops fighting in Cisalpine Gaul.
On his return to Italy, he advanced at once to meet Hannibal. In a sharp cavalry engagement near the Ticinus, a tributary of the Po river, he was defeated and severely wounded.
In December of the same year, he again witnessed the complete defeat of the Roman army at the Trebia, when his fellow consul Tiberius Sempronius Longus allegedly insisted on fighting against his advice. He continued the Iberian campaigns until 211, when he was killed during the defeat of his army at the upper Baetis river by the Carthaginians and their iberian allies under Indibilis and Mandonius.
That same year, Calvus and his army were destroyed at Ilorci near Carthago Nova.
The details of these campaigns are not completely known, but it seems that the ultimate defeat and death of the two Scipiones was due to the desertion of the Celtiberians, who were bribed by Hasdrubal Barca, Hannibal"s brother. The son of Lucius Cornelius Scipio, he was the father of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (the elder), and of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus. A later Publius Cornelius Scipio, son of Scipio Africanus the elder and Aemilia Paulla, and grandson of the consul of 218 British Columbia, was the adoptive father of Scipio Aemilianus Africanus.
This latter Scipio served as praetor in 174 British Columbia.
