* 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.

A former Democrat Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was nominated for Vice President to balance the ticket.

In addition, Raimi needed $ 3 million to finish his movie, but Universal was not willing to give him the money and delayed its release because they were upset that De Laurentiis would not give them the rights to the Hannibal Lecter character so that they could film a sequel to Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs.

They also fought alongside Hannibal, killing ( in 216 BC ) the Roman general L. Postumius Albinus, whose skull was then turned into a sacrificial bowl.

In volume 21 of his work Ab Urbe Condita, Livy ( 59 BC-17 AD ) claims that it was a Boian man that offered to show Hannibal the way across the Alps.

Fabius was well aware of the military superiority of the Carthaginians, and so Fabius refused to meet Hannibal in a pitched battle.

Fabius, we are told, reminded Minucius that it was Hannibal, and not he, who was the enemy.

Fabius continued to argue that confronting Hannibal directly was too dangerous.

It was the first invasion of the peninsula, apart from its remotest northern regions, since the days of Hannibal, 500 years before.

Hannibal, son of Hamilcar Barca ( 247 – 183 / 182 BC ) was a Punic Carthaginian military commander, generally considered one of the greatest military commanders in history.

After Antiochus met defeat at the Battle of Magnesia and was forced to accept Rome's terms, Hannibal fled again, making a stop in Armenia.

Hannibal was one of the sons of Hamilcar Barca, a Carthaginian leader.

Hasdrubal was assassinated around the same time ( 221 BC ), bringing Hannibal to the fore.

Hannibal knew that this route was full of difficulties, but it remained the surest and certainly the quickest way to central Italy.

" At the same time, Hannibal tried to break the allegiance of Rome ’ s allies by proving that Flaminius was powerless to protect them.

Near the present-day town of Larino in the Molise ( then called Larinum ), Hannibal had taken up position in a town called Gerione.

This position prevented the Carthaginians from sending reinforcements from Iberia to Hannibal or to the insurgent Gauls in northern Italy during critical stages of the war.

The treaty formally acknowledges the favourable position of Macedonia, including their capture of Illyria, but in return Philip effectively repudiates his alliance with Hannibal.

In the Battle of Cannae, Mago and Hannibal took position with the Galic infantry at the center, in the most vulnerable and crucial position of the formation.

As the Romans entered the harbour with their brand new ships, a part of the Carthaginian fleet, commanded by Hannibal Gisco ( the general defeated in Agrigentum ) and Boodes, was either waiting in ambush ( pro-Roman sources ), or received word of the Roman fleet's position and surprised them.

The physical character of the country rendered it necessarily a military position of the greatest strength: and after the defeat and death of Hasdrubal Hannibal himself put forces into some Bruttian territory, where he continued to maintain his ground against the Roman generals.

In 1826, following the death of her father, Charlotte Waring came to New South Wales to take up a position as governess to the family of Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur.

Caldwell went on to equip the 14-gun ship-sloop HMS Lightning for service while awaiting the launch of Hannibal, and Bowen received an appointment to her and the position of midshipman on 12 August 1779.