Nevertheless, it might be stated that its recorded history started in 409 BC when its more ancient neighbor, Himera ( now completely within the comune's borders ), was completely destroyed by the Carthaginian army under Hannibal Mago.

Apart from his description of the battle itself, when later discussing the subject of Roman Legion versus Greek Phalanx, Polybius says that "... against Hannibal, the defeats they suffered had nothing to do with weapons or formations " because " Hannibal himself ... discarded the equipment with which he had started out ( and ) armed his troops with Roman weapons ".

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: 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.

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

Instead he kept his troops close to Hannibal, hoping to exhaust him in a long war of attrition.

After the war, Hannibal successfully ran for the office of suffete.

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

Publius Cornelius Scipio, the consul who commanded the Roman force sent to intercept Hannibal, and Scipio Africanus ' father, had not expected Hannibal to make an attempt to cross the Alps, since the Romans were prepared to fight the war in Iberia.

What Hannibal achieved in extricating his army was, as Adrian Goldsworthy puts it, " a classic of ancient generalship, finding its way into nearly every historical narrative of the war and being used by later military manuals ".

As a result, Hannibal fought no more major battles in Italy for the rest of the war.

Two political factions operated in Carthage: the war party, also known as the " Barcids " ( Hannibal ’ s family name ) and the peace party led by Hanno II the Great.

In 203 BC, Hannibal was recalled from Italy by the war party in Carthage.

Although the aging Hannibal was suffering from mental exhaustion and deteriorating health after years of campaigning in Italy, the Carthaginians still had the advantage in numbers and were boosted by the presence of 80 war elephants.

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Nonetheless, they asked Carthage to hand Hannibal over, and when the Carthaginian oligarchy refused, Rome declared war on Carthage.

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.

Not only were they contending with Hannibal in Italy, and his brother Hasdrubal in Hispania, but Rome had embroiled itself in yet another foreign war, the first of its Macedonian wars against Carthage's ally Philip V, at the same time.

Hannibal used elephants for the first time in war.

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.

By the early 1960s films based on commando missions like The Gift Horse ( 1952 ) based on the St. Nazaire Raid, and Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1956 ) had begun to inspire fictional adventure films such as The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), The Train ( 1964 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ) and Hannibal Brooks ( 1969 ), which used the war as the backdrop for spectacular action films.

The patrician senator Quintus Fabius Pictor used Diocles ' as a source for his own history of Rome, written around the time of Rome's war with Hannibal and probably intended for circulation among Rome's Greek-speaking allies.

* Marcus Livius, member of the plenipotentiary board sent to Carthage after the fall of Saguntum in 219 BC to inquire if Hannibal's attack on it had been authorized and declare war if Hannibal could not be brought to justice.

Putting his experienced cavalry on the flanks, Hannibal aligned his troops in three straight lines behind his eighty war elephants.

Hannibal probably hoped that the combination of the war elephants and the depth of the first two lines would weaken and disorganize the Roman advance.

Having ravaged Apulia without bringing Fabius to battle, Hannibal decided to march through Samnium to Campania, one of the richest and most fertile provinces of Italy, hoping that the devastation would draw Fabius into battle.

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Naples, for example, forced Hannibal to flee without ever having set foot in the city due to the imposing walls.

Livy states that Hannibal deployed 4000 Macedonians in the second line, which is normally rejected as Roman propaganda, though T Dorey suggested that there might have been a seed of truth in the story if the Carthaginians had recruited a trivial number of mercenaries from Macedonia who had gone without official blessing.

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That Hannibal could operate there without hindrance indicates that he was in fact camped on the left bank of the Trebbia and subsequent operations against the Gauls prove it further.

Hannibal now knew that he could provoke Tiberius and made plans to entice him across the river where his troops could be slaughtered without assistance from the camp.

The effect was decisive and the surrounding tribes allowed Hannibal free passage without resistance.

However, the Danish statesman Hannibal Sehested negotiated a peace treaty without any direct involvement by foreign powers and the conflict was resolved with the Treaty of Copenhagen, where Sweden was forced to return Bornholm and Trøndelag to Denmark.

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He used interior lines to ensure that at no time could Hannibal march on Rome without abandoning his Mediterranean ports, while at the same time inflicting constant, small, debilitating defeats on the North Africans.