“What road led Hannibal to Rome?” Allen asks a visitor from America ... Much ink has been spilled in pinpointing the route of Hannibal’s improbable five-month, thousand-mile trek from ...

In 218 BC, a Carthaginian army of ninety thousand men and three dozen elephants set out to cross the Alps to challenge the might of Rome. The exact route chosen by Hannibal, its charismatic ...