A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies . h Rome, was attacked and captured. Then with anarmy of 50,000 infantry and 9,000 cavalry, supportedby fighting elephants, Hannibal marched northwardwith no less audacious a design than the crossing of theAlps and the descent into northern Italy. After almostincredible hardships, through fightings with wild tribesand the fierceness of winter storms among the high Alps,the army, reduced to less than half its number, stood ex-hausted, but triumphant, on the plains of Cisalpine And now began a duel to the death, the SecondP
A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies . h Rome, was attacked and captured. Then with anarmy of 50,000 infantry and 9,000 cavalry, supportedby fighting elephants, Hannibal marched northwardwith no less audacious a design than the crossing of theAlps and the descent into northern Italy. After almostincredible hardships, through fightings with wild tribesand the fierceness of winter storms among the high Alps,the army, reduced to less than half its number, stood ex-hausted, but triumphant, on the plains of Cisalpine And now began a duel to the death, the SecondPunic War (218 ). The fate of Rome hung on the loyalty of the al-lied cities of newly con-quered Gauls soonrose and flockedto Hannibal. TheRoman army un-der the consulswas routed at bat-tles on the banksof the rivers Ti-cinus and the Tre-bia. The next year (217 ) Hannibal, advancing south-ward, annihilated another Roman army at Lake Trasi-menus in Etruria; the consul Flaminius was killed in thebattle. Then the Romans in alarm appointed Quintus. Longitude 12 East liom 14 Greenwich 16 18
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