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 ...

how did Hannibal cross the Alps? This is no ordinary question. It has been around, with no obvious answer, for the last 2,000 years. Hannibal was a Carthaginian general who decided to invade the Roman ...

In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two ...

Micheál Martin (a day later than scheduled because of some stormy weather in the Dáil) the man who many pundits once ...

Winter landscapes have been a feature of art for hundreds of years—and while many focus on landscape alone, there are also some that allude to the historical context of their times, or portray ...

The high road – closed in winter months – links France and Italy and is where Hannibal is said to have brought his elephants across the Alps in 218 ... highlights of cross-border skiing ...

The holiday also includes a wine tasting tour and a leisurely boat ride across Lake Trasimeno, where Hannibal famously defeated ... by helicopter to some of the Alps’ best ski resorts for ...

During the Second Punic War in 218 BC, Carthaginian general Hannibal attacks the Roman Republic by crossing the Pyrenees and the Alps with his vast army. After a train is robbed of its payroll, an ...

Aircraft fighter army professional occupation Map with Hannibal's route to Rome Modern map with the route of Hannibal crossing of the Alps. The map was derived via Google maps, imported as an image in ...

Crossing a border from one culture ... and is also the easiest of the Franco-Italian alpine passes – you may well be skiing in the steps of Hannibal’s elephants. The old town is not without its charms ...