During the Second Punic War, which lasted from 218 to 201 B.C., the Carthaginian general Hannibal led his army of 100,000 troops across the Alps. Included in his ranks were 40 war elephants, a ...

The Carthaginians made some use of elephants during the First Punic War, such as in the battle at Bagradas River (255 BCE) in modern Tunisia. Here, around 100 elephants helped to crush a Roman ...

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Carthage, Tunisia (WHTM) In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, ... Second Punic War 218-201 BCE (17 Years) ...

A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.

Second, Lilybaeum managed to hold out for several years because the Romans had to divert forces to deal with the island guerrillas led by Hamilcar Barca. But in 243 BC, Rome organized a new fleet ...

Apart from the wars it had to wage against external enemies, it found itself embroiled not in one but in two civil conflicts. The first was a power struggle between Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Gaius ...

Later, in 202 B.C., blasts of Roman war trumpets panicked Carthaginian general Hannibal’s war elephants in the Battle of Zama, ending the Second Punic War.

The famed Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca also used elephants in battle. Gilmanshin/Shutterstock. During the Second Punic War, the famed Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca famously took 37 ...