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1 day ago · Hand in hand with this is the myth of the sacred oath that Hamilcar Barca made Hannibal swear en route to Spain in 237 BC: ‘never to show goodwill to the Romans’. This is often interpreted as a lifelong, inherited and unbreakable vendetta.
5 days ago · Hamilcar Barca inculcated his three sons, Hannibal, Hasdrubal, and Mago, with his resentment of Rome. After defeating the mercenaries he went to Spain to develop a Carthaginian hegemony there, and he brought his nine year old son, Hannibal, with him.
4 days ago · Hannibal Barca counting the rings of the Roman knights killed at the Battle of Cannae (216 BC), by Sébastien Slodtz (1704). Gardens of the Tuileries, Louvre Museum. Hannibal is regarded as one of the most brilliant military strategists in history.
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4 days ago · The Death of Aemilius Paulus at the Battle of Cannae, John Trumbull, 1773.Source: the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven In 216 BCE, the Roman Republic stood in very real danger of total collapse. Locked in a life-or-death struggle against the Carthaginians during the Second Punic War, two Roman consuls and most of their Italian armies had just been obliterated by Hannibal’
1 day ago · Hasdrubal Barca When it was essential that Hasdrubal and his troops should be destroyed before they joined Hannibal, the brother of Hasdrubal, Claudius Nero, lacking confidence in the troops under his own command, was therefore eager to unite his forces with those of his colleague, Livius Salinator, to whom the direction of the campaign had been committed. Desiring, however, that his departure should be unobserved by Hannibal, whose camp was opposite his, he chose ten thousand of his bravest ...
5 days ago · Hannibal Barca crossed the Alps with war elephants to surprise the Roman army during the Second Punic War. Renaissance Figures. The Renaissance was a period of great cultural change and achievement. These figures left an indelible mark on history. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.
3 days ago · www.barcelona.cat. Barcelona (/ ˌbɑːrsəˈloʊnə / ⓘ BAR-sə-LOH-nə; Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə] ⓘ; Spanish: [baɾθeˈlona] ⓘ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain.
