During the Second Punic War, which lasted from 218 to 201 B.C., the Carthaginian general Hannibal led his army of 100,000 troops across the Alps. Included in his ranks were 40 war elephants, a ...

After the First Punic War Carthage had lost its allied territory in Sicily and Sardinia to the Romans. Like the Romans at the time, the Carthaginians were, looking to expand their sphere of power.

Known simply as “Hannibal,” in his quest to take Rome during the Second Punic War, he marched an army, including elephants, across the Pyrenees and Alps to take victory in Italy.

Archaeologists in Ugento, Italy, uncovered city walls, lead sling bullets, and iron bolts, offering fresh evidence of a ...

In 218 B.C. the Carthaginian general Hannibal led an army of 30,000 soldiers, 15,000 horses and mules and 37 war elephants ... which recount the army’s harrowing journey along narrow ...

The Second Punic War saw Hannibal deliver the worst defeat by any army against another in recorded history at the Battle of Cannae. Hannibal's troops killed 70,000-80,000 of Rome's 86,000 soldiers ...

Scipio used Hannibal’s own tactics against him, marking the end of the Second Punic War. Hannibal’s career never recovered. Hannibal took his own life in 183 BCE to avoid capture by the Romans.

Carthage, Tunisia (WHTM) In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two major powers in the Mediterranean Sea are… ...

Some 16 years earlier, in 218 B.C., Hannibal had brought his army, including his war elephants, across the Alps and had won several battles in Italy, even while Scipio, the younger of the two, was ...