Generals - Hannibal, General Officer, Frederick Townsend Ward, Abdul Rahim Wardak, Dien del, Archelaus, Anto Gvozdenovi, Arnaldo Ochoa (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Hannibal, General officer, Frederick Townsend Ward, Abdul Rahim Wardak, Dien Del, Archelaus, Anto Gvozdenovi, Arnaldo Ochoa, Nikola ubi Zrinski, Harpagus, Neo Kian Hong, Hasdrubal Gisco, Gaius Pontius, Rachid Ammar, Bo Mya, Bahr m Chobin, Kjell Eugenio Laugerud Garcia, Henry Andres Burgevine, Babacar Gaye, Hunac Ceel, Mazares, Hasdrubal the Boeotarch, Diophantus, Ariobarzan, Guillermo Rodriguez, Kalfun, Grand Old Man of the Army, Grand General. Excerpt: Hannibal, son of Hamilcar Barca (247-183 or 182 BC) was a Carthaginian military commander and tactician. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest military commanders of all time. His father, Hamilcar Barca, was the leading Carthaginian commander during the First Punic War, his younger brothers were Mago and Hasdrubal, and he was brother-in-law to Hasdrubal the Fair. Hannibal lived during a period of tension in the Mediterranean, when the Roman Republic established its supremacy over other great powers such as Carthage, the Hellenistic kingdoms of Macedon, Syracuse, and the Seleucid empire. One of his most famous achievements was at the outbreak of the Second Punic War, when he marched an army, which included war elephants, from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy. In his first few years in Italy, he won three dramatic victories - Trebia, Trasimene, and Cannae - and won over several allies of Rome. Hannibal occupied much of Italy for 15 years, but a Roman counter-invasion of North Africa forced him to return to Carthage, where he was decisively defeated by Scipio Africanus at the Battle of Zama. Scipio studied Hannibal's tactics and brilliantly devised some of his own, and finally defeated Rome's nemesis at Zama having previously driven Hasdrubal, Hannibal's brother, out of the Spanish peninsula. After the war, Hannibal successfull...