The Rise of Hannibal
The Ancients
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Hannibal's War With Rome, but What Would He Do?
It's not clear whether hannibal improvises a plan when the war breaks out, or whether there has been a long strategy developed by his family to always take this kind of approach that he adopts. What he does know is that the romans prefer to fight abroad. They prefer to fight in enemy territory very sensibly. And so his plan is essentially to march to italy and fight the war in italy - which the carthaginians never really managed in the first punic war. It is also predicated on an expectation that theCarthaginians will be able to gather allies and supplies in italy itself.
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