Hannibal’s Big Mistake

In the Second Punic War the great Carthaginian general repeatedly defeated Rome’s best armies—but still lost. In November 218 BC, after invading Italy, Carthaginian military commander Hannibal defeated a Roman cavalry force at the Ticinus River. A month later he destroyed a Roman consular army at the Trebbia River before retiring to Bononia (modern-day Bologna) …

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