Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . nder command ofthe recently elected consul, Servilius,to Ariminum, and the other two, commandedby Caius Flaminius, were despatched to Arre-tium. The latter general was the favoriteof the Roman people, being the same who astribune had secured the pas
Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . nder command ofthe recently elected consul, Servilius,to Ariminum, and the other two, commandedby Caius Flaminius, were despatched to Arre-tium. The latter general was the favoriteof the Roman people, being the same who astribune had secured the passage of that agra-rian law by which the northern lands hadbeen recently distributed to the poor; but hewas by no means possessed of such militarytalents as to make him a match for Hannibal. The latter now crossed the Apennines, andreached the valley of the Arno, whence heproceeded towards Perusia, leaving the consu-lar array under Flaminius in Arretium. TheRoman consul followed in his track as far asLake , where the Carthaginianhad posted himself for battle. The latter took dilile, throULih which the IJonian army must]iass. On the day of the battle the regionabout the lake was surrounded with a thickfo;:, and the Romans, uninformed of the of their enemy, advanced the defile. ROME. —THE rUNIC WARS. 1G3. HAMNIBAL CKUbf^lXG THEDrawn by H. rAnitemnmi ia-1 UXIVKUSAL jnsTOUY. — THE AXCIKXT WOULD. imicl. as thr army (.f ol,l Po-iinnin^ I,:,.I IUvIt l!ir Cauirnir Fork-. Tli- Irap Imtii mu-?,s~n,llv M.|. A. M.,,n a- ll,.. IkhI„,l |.a-. m,? vcrv H, iVn,,!, , the cliU; , ^ an invisihle enmiy. prnporlion^ tlic ].liaiiln,iM,r Inr , ^IumI ,l.,wn tlu narrow pass, the soMirrs iMl into iiirxtri-cahlr ,-onl\r-ioii, were l,y Veiy few sueeetMleil iu ; theremainder were ki
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