CLST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sean Connery, Battle Of The Trebia, Masinissa
15 Apr 2016
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Hannibal took great losses and had to care for like elephants and crap. A roman captured heard hannibal say that he lost 36 000 men crossing the alps. Regardless of the number of losses, he arrived in italy and was able to recoup some losses as many gauls, just recently defeated by rome joined his army at the time. Hannibals new number was 90 000 with gaelic support. After first battle on italian soil, ticinus, publius was almost killed but was rescued. By either his son publius, or by a salve. Gnaeus, now in spain was ensuring that reinforcements not reached hannibal. For carthaginians, cavalry means numidians, (og people) Ancestors of aboriginal people of north aftica related to people called the berbers. Worry in rome that troops were being ill served by aristocrat commanders. People elected c. flaminius as consul for 217 bc and led an army northwards to meet hannibal head on.
