The Rise of Hannibal
The Ancients
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Hannibal's March to Italy
Over all, it had taken hannibal and his army 15 days to cross the alps. But this march, the climax to an epic venture, came at a great cost. Despite its heavy toll, the feate's legacy has endur for more than two millennia. It is very hard to resist the lure of this epic, because it does seem to be up there with troy and en. There is such a drama about hannibal's march to italy,. most of all in the alps, but even, you know, crossing the rhone and getting elephants on to barges it is a terrific story.
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