: When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, Scipio could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into Italy, or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called Magalus, diverted from an immediate engagement ; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.

There, in December of the same year, Hannibal had an opportunity to show his masterful military skill at Trebia ; where after wearing down the superior Roman infantry he then cut it to pieces with a surprise attack and ambush from the flanks.

There were three military theaters in this war: Italy, where Hannibal defeated the Roman legions repeatedly ; Hispania, where Hasdrubal, a younger brother of Hannibal, defended the Carthaginian colonial cities with mixed success until eventually retreating into Italy ; and Sicily, where the Romans held military supremacy.

Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough that I could be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins which will boil along there till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest.

Hannibal Goodwin's invention of nitrocellulose film base in 1887 was the first transparent, flexible film ; the following year, Emile Reynaud developed the first perforated film stock.

" They were also warlike ; they invaded Italy and went as far as Rome in the 4th century BC, and they later aided the passage of Hannibal, on his way to attack Rome ( 218 BC ).

* Hannibal ravages Apulia and Campania ; meanwhile the delaying tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus ' army allows only skirmishes to occur between the two armies.

A few years later ( 210 BC ), Hannibal, finding himself unable to protect his allies in Campania, removed the inhabitants of Atella who had survived the fall of their city to Thurii ; but it was not long before he was compelled to abandon the latter city also to its fate ; and when he himself in 204 BC withdrew his forces into Bruttium, he removed to Crotona 3500 of the principal citizens of Thurii, while he gave up the city itself to the plunder of his troops.

After the Battle of Cannae in the Second Punic War ( 216 BC ), Croton revolted from Rome, and Hannibal made it his winter quarters for three years ; it was not recaptured until 205 or 204 BCE.

Mahan describes in the preface to The Influence of Sea Power upon History how the Romans used their sea power to effectively block the sea lines of communication of Hannibal with Carthage ; and so via a maritime strategy achieved Hannibal's removal from Italy, despite never beating him there with their legions.

Its western terminus is in Hannibal, Missouri, at an intersection with U. S. Route 61 ; its eastern terminus is at Country Fair Drive in Champaign, Illinois.

* Thomas Harris, author of Hannibal Lecter novels ; he was born in Jackson, Tennessee, but raised in Rich, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in Coahoma County.

Malta was initially chosen as the name for the township ; however when the township was organized in 1849, state senator Pennoyer changed the name to Allendale, after Agnes Allen, the first person on the tax roll in the area and the widow of Hannibal Allen, who was the son of Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen.

* Louisiana is one of three communities forming the 50 Miles of Art corridor, linked by history, heritage & Route 79 ; Louisiana, Clarksville and Hannibal are home to many artists, crafts-persons and artisans.

* Theodore Ayrault Dodge ; Hannibal: A History of the Art of War among the Carthaginians and Romans down to the Battle of Pydna, 168 B. C., with a Detailed Account of the Second Punic War ; 1891 ; ISBN 0-306-81362-9

about six miles ( 10 km ) northeast of Rolla, Phelps county, Mark Twain Cave ( in Marion county, about one mile ( 1. 6 km ) south of Hannibal ), which has a deep pool containing many eyeless fish ; and various caverns in Miller, Ozark,

During the Second Punic War, for example, Hannibal diverted his army to conquer cities simply to gather supplies ; his strategy in crossing the Alps necessitated traveling with as few provisions as possible, expecting the Roman stores to sustain them when they had breached the border.

However, he had second thoughts about disbanding Blackstreet, and patched things up with Hannibal ; Middleton and Williams, returned to restore the Another Level lineup, and Riley's solo project became a Blackstreet reunion.

They were more than enough to be completely effective against the Romans ; moreover, by that time Hannibal had turned all Gallia Cisalpina ( the region in which the battle was fought ) against the Romans, and the Carthaginians were prospering on enthusiastic Gallic supply and support.

The Town of Hamlin was created as the " Town of Union ," but was renamed in 1861 as the Town of Hamlin in honor of Lincoln's first Vice President Hannibal Hamlin.

Granby was created in 1818 from the Town of Hannibal and part of the Town of Lysander in Onondaga County.

* Hannibal Lecter, fictional serial killer created by novelist Thomas Harris

On April 4, 1956 the Socialist Party created an electoral alliance with yet another left-wing split of the Social Democratic Party led by Hannibal Valdimarsson, thus forming the People's Alliance with Hannibal as its chairman.

Thomas Harris ' Hannibal Lecter novels and the corresponding films ( Manhunter, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, and Red Dragon ) featured the Behavioral Science Unit ( BSU ), which later created and developed what eventually became known as the BAU.

* Blade Doppelgänger-allegedly created by Deacon Frost at the same time Blade was born ; attacked and absorbed Blade into itself ; staked through the heart by Dracula ; briefly revived and quickly destroyed by Hannibal King to allow Son of Satan to separate Blade from it

* 216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.

Although he was aware that the Bastarnae were hardly likely to achieve the same success as Hannibal some 40 years earlier, and would most likely end up cut to pieces by the Romans, Philip hoped that the Romans would be distracted long enough to allow him to reoccupy his former possessions in Greece.

Iberian daggers and swords were later adopted by Hannibal and his Carthaginian armies.

Transparent and flexible film base material, celluloid, was discovered and refined for photographic use by John Carbutt, Hannibal Goodwin, and George Eastman.

It was Fabius Buteo, his kinsman who formally declared war in the Carthaginian Senate after the capture of Saguntum by Hannibal ( Liv.

Hannibal counting the rings of the Roman senate | Roman senators killed during the Battle of Cannae, statue by Sébastien Slodtz, 1704, Louvre

He realized what would happen when Minucius was defeated in battle by Hannibal.

" It was only after Fabius had saved him from an attack by Hannibal that Minucius placed himself under Fabius ' command.

Fabius died in 203 BC, shortly after Hannibal's army left Italy, but before he could see the eventual Roman victory over Hannibal at the Battle of Zama won by Scipio.

* Livy The War with Hannibal translated by Aubrey de Selincourt 1974, Penguin Books, London, England.

They were defeated there by the Carthaginians under Hamilcar ( a popular Carthaginian name, not to be confused with Hannibal Barca's father, with the same name ) in 260 BC.

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.

Plutarch states that, when questioned by Scipio as to who was the greatest general, Hannibal is said to have replied either Alexander or Pyrrhus, then himself, or, according to another version of the event, Pyrrhus, Scipio, then himself.

Upon the assassination of Hasdrubal ( 221 BC ), Hannibal was proclaimed commander-in-chief by the army and confirmed in his appointment by the Carthaginian government.

Hannibal was now determined to carry the war into the heart of Italy by a rapid march through Hispania and southern Gaul.

Hannibal ´ s route of invasion given by the Department of History, United States Military Academy.

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.

After outmaneuvering the natives, who had tried to prevent his crossing, Hannibal evaded a Roman force marching from the Mediterranean coast by turning inland up the valley of the Rhône.

Historical events, which led to the defeat of Carthage during the First Punic War when his father commanded the Carthaginian Army, led Hannibal to plan the invasion of Italy by land across the Alps.

Virtually every family in Rome lost a member or members in the swath of destruction brought down on them by Hannibal and his Carthaginian armies.

Through prompt decision and speedy movement, he succeeded in transporting his army to Italy by sea, in time to meet Hannibal.

Here, Hannibal forced the Romans, by virtue of his superior cavalry, to evacuate the plain of Lombardy.

Hannibal, by skillful maneuvers, was in position to head him off, for he lay on the direct road between Placentia and Arminum, by which Sempronius would have to march to reinforce Scipio.