History · 218 BC
Hannibal's March
New Carthage to the Trebia
Carthage walks into Italy: the Ebro, the Rhône, the Alps in autumn, and war-elephants in the snow.
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Chronicler
Still at New Carthage
The road to The Ebro is 250 miles. Qart Hadasht. Hannibal leaves Spain with an army the size of a city.
The road
New Carthage
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Qart Hadasht. Hannibal leaves Spain with an army the size of a city.
The Ebro
250 mi
The river Rome treated as a line. He crosses it anyway.
The Pyrenees
420 mi
Passes into Gaul. Some tribes paid, some fought, all remembered.
The Rhône
640 mi
Rafts and elephants. The river is the last easy water.
The approach
780 mi
Allobroges country. The mountains take the sky.
The Alpine col
860 mi
Snow in October. Livy says men and beasts went over together.
The Po valley
940 mi
Italy at last. The army is smaller. It is also here.
The Trebia
1,000 mi
First of the great victories. Rome learns the name Hannibal.
Polybius & Livy, reconstructed Alpine crossing ~1,000 miles