![]() Hamilcar Barca (Barca meaning lightning), a leading member of the patriotic Barcine party in Carthage and a general in the First Punic War, sought to remedy the losses that Carthage had suffered in Sicily to the Romans. ![]() Hannibal led his Carthaginian army over the Alps and into Italy to take the war directly to the Roman Republic, bypassing Roman and allied land garrisons, and Roman naval dominance.Īfter the final Carthaginian naval defeat at the Aegates Islands, the Carthaginians surrendered in the First Punic War. Hannibal's crossing of the Alps in 218 BC was one of the major events of the Second Punic War, and one of the most celebrated achievements of any military force in ancient warfare. ![]()
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