s0215p-HANNIBAL born 247 BC-183 BC in Carthage, Carthaginian military commander and tactician
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Image is Roman marble bust of Hannibal originally found at the ancient city-state of Capua in Italy. We have no authenticated image of Hannibal, this is an imagined likeness.
Credited as one of the finest commanders in history, General, commander-in-chief of the Carthaginian armies, Battles and Wars-Second Punic War 218-182 BC: Battle of Lake Trasimene, Battle of Trebia, Battle of Cannae, Battle of Zama, defeated the Romans in a series of battles, after the war he spent time planting olive trees, one of the three greatest generals of the age, together with Scipio and Philopoemen