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Twenty of them, a mix of Indian and North African forest elephants, marched from Spain to Italy with Hannibal and his enormous army in 218. It took him fifteen days to cross the Alps, perhaps via ...

The views over snow-tipped mountains ... once struck fear into those who had to cross them. Hannibal led his Carthaginian army and 37 elephants across rocky, icy heights to invade Italy in ...

In Alps and Elephants, the first of several books ... have produced more unprofitable discussion than that of Hannibal’s pass over the Alps.” Walbank, who seemed inclined toward either ...

Zama ended Hannibal’s hopes of crushing Rome and ending a longstanding rivalry for dominance over the central ... including his war elephants, across the Alps and had won several battles in ...

Ever since Hannibal, the boy-wonder general of ancient Carthage, performed the astonishing feat of leading 37 elephants and an army of some 45,000 over the Alps into northern Italy to attack Rome ...

His story of how he coaxed them, their riders, and a small army of hungry refugees over more than ... as it does Elephant Bill himself, of Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps. But Williams keeps ...

Did he haul his army over the Col de Clapier ... “What on earth do you think the Alps are except a collection of high mountains?” Livy has Hannibal say in a harangue to his troops beforehand.

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15,000 cavalry and most famous of all—37 elephants. Hannibal’s invasion over the Alps sent shockwaves through the ancient world—for 15 long years he waged a campaign of annihilation ...

Netflix touted the film about "the Carthaginian general who famously led an army of warriors and elephants across the Alps to fight the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War." Hannibal’s ...