Hannibal's Footsteps.

National Review | June 24, 1988| | Copyright

Hannibal's Footsteps,

HANNIBAL slaughtered sixty thousand Romans at Cannae in 216 B.C., and defeated Scipio the Elder at the Ticino River and Gaius Flaminius at Lake Trasimeno, where the earth quaked. But for those of us with little Latin and less Greek, the Carthaginian general may be known only for an improbable march across the Alps with elephants. This is a trip that has been retraced countless times (by Napoleon, among others) since Polybius first followed in Hannibal's footsteps around 160 B.C. The latest in the series is the British journalist Bernard Levin. ...

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