216 B.C.
Background
In about 264 B.C., near Messina, a Sicilian city, the first Punic war began. Years later, the second Punic War began when Hannibal attacked the trading port of Seguntum, in present day Spain, only to violate the peace treaty. Hannibal also attacked the Romans after making a vow with his father saying he would fight the Romans until he had defeated them at the age of nine. Hannibal wanted the Romans to fight back.
Hannibal journeyed over the Alps and Pyrenees Mountain Ranges. He started with about sixty thousand men and ended up with about twenty three thousand men and only a couple of elephants to spare that had survived, that would eventually die. Hannibal and the Carthaginians used vinegar and fire to mel
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