After all the newly enrolled troops of Hannibal had been killed or put to flight, his veterans, who had remained by him in Italy, although surrounded on all sides by forces far outnumbering their own, fought on, and were killed one by one around their beloved chief.

The army was fairly annihilated.

Hannibal, with only a handful, managed to escape to Hadrumetum.
The battle of Zama decided the fate of the West.

The power of Carthage was broken, and her supremacy passed to Rome.

She was allowed to retain her own territory intact, but all her war-ships, except ten, were given up, and her prisoners restored; an annual tax of about $200,000, for fifty years, was to be paid into the Roman treasury, and she could carry on no war without the consent of Rome.