Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . son of the great Carthaginiangeneral Hamilcar Barca, and wasborn in 247 It is said that inhis ninth year his father led him toan altar and bade him swear eter-nal enmity to Rome. From the ageof nine to eighteen he was trainedin war and diplomacy under Hamil-car in Spain; and from his eigh-teenth to his twenty-fifth year hewas the chief agent in carrying outthe plans by which his brother-in-law, Hasdrubal, extended and con-solidated the Carth
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . son of the great Carthaginiangeneral Hamilcar Barca, and wasborn in 247 It is said that inhis ninth year his father led him toan altar and bade him swear eter-nal enmity to Rome. From the ageof nine to eighteen he was trainedin war and diplomacy under Hamil-car in Spain; and from his eigh-teenth to his twenty-fifth year hewas the chief agent in carrying outthe plans by which his brother-in-law, Hasdrubal, extended and con-solidated the Carthaginian dominionin the Peninsula. On the death of Hasdrubal, in 221 , the soldiers with onevoice chose Hannibal, then in his twenty-sixth year, as their general. Forthwithhe crossed the Tagus, and in two years reduced all Spain up to the Ebro, withthe exception of the Greek colony of Saguntum. That town, which claimedthe protection of Rome, fell in 218 , and the Second Punic War, or, as theRomans justly called it, the War of Hannibal, began. Garrisoning Libyawith Spaniards, and Spain with Libyans (a precaution against treachery), Hanni.
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