“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 ...

But what was Hannibal’s precise route? For centuries ... at Cannae in 216 B.C. The Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage raged on until 202 B.C., when Hannibal was defeated at the Battle ...

The most obvious route for Hannibal to have taken through the Alps ... elephants and all — couldn't save Carthage, which Rome defeated in the Second Punic War (218 B.C. to 201 B.C.). However ...

Hannibal mounted his infamous invasion of Italy during the Second Punic War against Rome, which spanned 218 ... determined the fastest overland route Hannibal’s forces could have used to reach ...

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 ...