The Rise of Hannibal
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Hannibal's War With Rome
It's not clear whether hannibal improvises a plan when war breaks out, or whether there has been a long strategy developed by his family to always take this kind of approach that he adopts. What he does know is that the romans prefer to fight abroad. They prefer to figt in enemy territory very sensibly. And so his plan is essentially to march to italy. And fight the war in italy, which the carthaginians never really managed in the first punic war,. where they fought mostly in sicily and sometimes in africa.
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