The Roman general Scipio and Carthaginian Hannibal dueled with each other during the last years of the third century B.C., the final phase of what we now know as the Second Punic War.

As Frontinus put it, “By the same plan, Claudius stole a march on one of the two sharpest Carthaginian generals and crushed the other.” After the Metaurus, it was only a matter of time. Without ...

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

Hannibal taught us to build a support system. Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca brought the Roman Republic to his knees during the Second Punic War. In 218 BCE, he famously crossed the Alps with ...

Hippocrates (c. 420 BC) used vinegar medicinally to manage wounds. Hannibal of Carthage (c. 200 BC), the great military leader and strategist, used vinegar to dissolve boulders that blocked his ...

Unlike the previous two wars, which involved much maneuvering and pitched battles (the Second Punic War saw the Carthaginian general Hannibal crossing the Alps) the third was mostly a siege of ...