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Everyone will kow the story of Hannibal when the new films come out this year however not many people know that Carthage in Tunisia was once the richest seaport in the world and the Carthage army came so close to defeating the Romans.

Hannibal (247 BC – 183/182 BC; sometimes referred to as Hannibal Barca) was a Carthaginian politician and statesman who is considered to be one of the finest military generals in history. As the greatest enemy of the Roman Republic, he is best known for his achievements in the Second Punic War, when he marched an army from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy and defeated the Romans in a series of battles, maintaining an army in Italy for several years. A Roman counter-invasion of North Africa forced him to return to Carthage, where he was defeated and then forced into exile. He lived at the Seleucid court, where he acted as military advisor to Antiochus III in his war against Rome. Defeated in a naval battle, Hannibal fled again, this time to the Bithynian court. When the Romans demanded his surrender, he preferred to commit suicide rather than submit.

Hannibal is universally ranked as one of the greatest military commanders and tacticians in history, along with Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon I of France and Robert E. Lee. Military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge once famously christened Hannibal the "father of strategy" for the reason that even his greatest enemy, Rome, came to adopt elements of his military tactics in their strategic canon.



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