Perhaps the greatest military leader of all time, Hannibal threatened to topple the entire Roman Republic in the second Punic War, from 219 to 202 B. C. In the process, he staged an amazing march across southern Europe, including his famous trek through the Alps with an army of 50,000 soldiers—and a few dozen elephants! Only the delay tactics of the Roman army and the brilliant strategies of its general Scipio Africanus prevented Hannibal from creating a vast empire.
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