. A history of Rome . Fig. 13. Hannibal 56 EXPANSION OF ROME [§62 III. THE SECOND PUNIC WAR (218-201 ) 62. Hannibals Passage of the Alps. The Carthaginian empirewas now all astir with preparations for the mighty struggle. Hannibalwas the life and soul of every movement. His bold plan was to crossthe Pyrenees and the Alps and descend upon Rome from the in the spring of 218 , he set out from New Carthage withan army numbering about one hundred thousand men and includingthirty-seven war elephants. Traversing northern Spain and crossing. The Route of Hannibal the Pyrenees and t
. A history of Rome . Fig. 13. Hannibal 56 EXPANSION OF ROME [§62 III. THE SECOND PUNIC WAR (218-201 ) 62. Hannibals Passage of the Alps. The Carthaginian empirewas now all astir with preparations for the mighty struggle. Hannibalwas the life and soul of every movement. His bold plan was to crossthe Pyrenees and the Alps and descend upon Rome from the in the spring of 218 , he set out from New Carthage withan army numbering about one hundred thousand men and includingthirty-seven war elephants. Traversing northern Spain and crossing. The Route of Hannibal the Pyrenees and the Rhone, he reached the foothills of the Alps,probably under the pass known to-day as the Little St. season was already far advanced, — it was October,— and snowwas falling upon the higher portions of the trail, so that the passageof the mountains was accomplished only after severe toil and length the thinned columns, numbering less than thirty thousandmen, issued from the denies of the foothills upon the plains ofthe Po. This was the pitiable force with which Hannibal proposedto attack the Roman state — a state that at this time had on itslevy lists over seven hundred thousand foot soldiers and seventythousand horse. §63] FABIUS THE DELAYER 57 63. Fabius the Delayer. In three successive battles in northernItaly and Etruria,1 the Romans suffered disastrous defeat, and twogreat Roman armies were almost annihilated. The way to Rome wasnow open. Believing that Hannibal would march directly upon thecapital, the Senate c
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