Category: Biographies
Hannibal.--Rome and Carthage.--Tyre.--Founding of Carthage.--Its commercial spirit.--Gold and silver mines.--New Carthage.--Ships and army.--Numidia.--Balearic Isles.--The sling.--The government of Carthage.--The aristocracy.--Geographical relations of the Carthaginian empire....
The Alps.--Their sublimity and grandeur.--Perpetual cold in the upper regions of the atmosphere.--Avalanches.--Their terrible force.--The glaciers.--Motion of the ice.--Crevices...
12. Chapter 12Destruction.--The third Punic war.--Chronological table of the Punic wars.--Character of the Punic wars.--Intervals between them.--Animosities and dissensions.--Numidia.--Numidi...
10. Chapter 10Reason of Hannibal's success.--The Scipios.--Fragments of the Roman army.--Scipio elected commander.--Scipio's energy.--Case of Metellus.--Metellus yields.--Consternation at Rom...
11. Chapter 11Hannibal's conquests.--Peaceful pursuits.--The danger of a spirit of ambition and conquest.--Gradual progress of Scipio's victories.--Severe conditions of peace exacted by Scipi...
8. Chapter 8Alarm at Rome.--The consul Flaminius.--Another stratagem.--Confidence of Flaminius.--Complete rout of the Romans.--Effects of the battle.--Panic of the Romans.--Their superstiti...
1. Chapter 1Hannibal.--Rome and Carthage.--Tyre.--Founding of Carthage.--Its commercial spirit.--Gold and silver mines.--New Carthage.--Ships and army.--Numidia.--Balearic Isles.--The sling...
9. Chapter 9Interest excited by the battle of Cannae.--Various military operations.--State of the public mind at Rome.--The plebeians and patricians.--The consuls AEmilius and Varro.--A new...
4. Chapter 4Difficulties anticipated.--Reconnoitering party.--Some tribes reduced.--Alarm of the Gauls.--The Alps.--Difficulty of their passage.--Hannibal's message to the Gauls.--Success o...
6. Chapter 6Miserable condition of the army.--Its great losses.--Feelings of Hannibal's soldiers.--Plans of Scipio.--The armies approach each other.--Feelings of Hannibal and Scipio.--Addre...
7. Chapter 7Hannibal pursues the Romans.--He takes some prisoners.--Revolt of some Gauls from the Romans.--Hannibal crosses the river.--Dismay of the Romans.--Sempronius recalled to Italy.-...
2. Chapter 2Parentage of Hannibal.--Character of Hamilcar.--Religious ceremonies.--Hannibal's famous oath of enmity to Rome.--Hamilcar in Spain.--Hasdrubal.--Death of Hamilcar.--Hannibal se...
3. Chapter 3Fall of Hanno's party.--Power of Hannibal.--Desperate valor of the Saguntines.--Hannibal's disposition of the spoils.--Hannibal chosen one of the suffetes.--Nature of the office...