Zama: The Battle That Never Was?

[john m roberts]

Well, as the link to policework has already been laid, let's see if there is MOTIVE in the alleged fabrication of the Battle of Zama. Also, there may be a gray area. That there was a clash of some sort at Zama, but it was blown up to something much bigger and decisive. So it is not an entire fabrication, but a half-lie or half-truth. These are more difficult to counter then the clearcut variaty. So, in order to understand the WHAT, we must question the WHY.

Good thought. To Texans, the Battle of the Alamo was an epic comparable to Thermopylae. To the victor, Santa Anna, it was "but a trifling affair." The perceptions of an event after the fact often vary widely depending on the viewer, and the manipulation of historical fact or fiction for political purposes has a long, long history. See George Orwell on this subject.