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He became a Carthaginian general in Iberia in 229 BC, a post he would maintain for some eight years until 221 BC.
Soon the Romans became aware of an alliance between Carthage and the Celts of the Po River valley in Northern Italy.
The latter were amassing forces to invade farther south in Italy, presumably with Carthaginian backing.
It seems that, having apparently dealt with the threat of a Gaulo-Carthaginian invasion ( and perhaps they knew that the original Carthaginian commander had been killed ), the Romans lulled themselves into a false sense of security.
Thus, Hannibal took the Romans by surprise a scant two years later in 218 BC by merely reviving and adapting the original Gaulish-Carthaginian invasion plan of his brother-in-law.
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