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Hannibal (Punic Hanniba'al חניבעל, Ba'al is my grace, or Ba'al has given me grace), son of Hamilcar Barca (247 BC – ca. 183 BC, short form Hannibal) was a Carthaginian military commaner and tactician, later also working in other professions, who is popularly credited as one of the finest commanders in history. He lived during a period of tension in the Mediterranean, when Rome (then the Roman Republic) established its supremacy over other great powers such as Carthage, and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of Macedon, Syracuse, and the Seleucid empire. He is one of the best-known Carthaginian commanders. His most famous achievement was at the outbreak of the Second Punic War, when he marched an army, which included war elephants, from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy.

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  • General Publius Scipio won the surname "Africanus" for beating this man at the 202 B.C. Battle of Zama
  • One of the few victories the Romans ever won against this Carthaginian general was at Zuma in 202 B.C.
  • Around 196 B.C. this general became chief magistrate of Carthage
  • Although born in Florida, Missouri, Mark Twain grew up in this city on the Mississippi River
  • 7 years after crossing the Alps, he reached the gates of Rome with his troops in 211 B.C., but didn't get in
  • Each year kids can compete in the National Fence Painting Contest in this Missouri town
  • In the first Punic War, the troops of his father, Hamilcar Barca, were defeated by the Romans in Sicily
  • In the second Punic War, this Carthaginian general almost defeated Rome
  • Having lost about half his troops whil crossing the Alps, he recruited about 15,000 Gauls
  • I brought 37 elephants on my 218 B.C. crossing of the Alps, but only 1 survived; I feel bad about that
  • In 218 B.C. this things-to-do note seen here:"Feed elephants, don't forget, shovel!"
  • Mark Twain was born in Florida--Florida, Missouri that is--& moved with his family to this town in 1839
  • Author Thomas Harris is heard here reading from this 1999 bestsellerAnd so with small steps, Clarice Starling began to pursue Dr. Lecter down the corridors of his tastes, with more confidence in her footing that was entirely justified
  • While Archimedes was thinking up inventions, this Carthaginian was thinking of how to get elephants over the Alps
  • FBI man Anthony Hopkins pursues Julianne Moore's Clarice the Cannibal, okey-dokey?
  • 2001:"Good evening, Clarice! Just like old times"
  • Although we do know he crossed the Alps with about 40 elephants, we don't know what route he took
  • This Missouri town invites visitors to explore the caves from Mark Twain's books
  • Surus was said to be the bravest of the war elephants that crossed the Alps with this Carthaginian
  • One of the last biplanes used by a commercial airliner, the HP42, bore the name of this Carthaginian general
  • Talk about an elephant in the room; in 215 Macedonia's Philip V allied with this Carthaginian against Rome
  • Mark Twain's brother Orion owned this Missouri city's Journal, for which Twain set type & wrote
  • The Second Punic War ended in 201 B.C when this Carthaginian general made peace with Rome
  • You can barely make out the elephants in J.M.W. Turner's painting of this man "Crossing the Alps"
  • As a boy in 238 B.C, this general accompanied his father Hamilcar on an expedition to conquer Spain
  • His father, Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca, drowned while besieging Helice in Spain
  • His 218 B.C. leadership of an armed trip to Italy is shown here
  • In the 3rd century B.C., this man & his army crossed the Alps & invaded Italy from the north
  • In 218 B.C. this Carthaginian defeated the Romans at the Trebia River
  • This Carthaginian general reportedly gave rations of raisins to his troops when they were crossing the Alps
  • When this Carthaginian left the foe recover, a friend said, "You know how to win a victory...but not how to use it"
  • This Carthaginian's final significant battlefield defeat was against Scipio's forces in Zama in 202 B.C.
  • In 221 B.C. he took command of the Carthaginian Army in Spain from his brother-in-law
  • In 202 B.C. Scipio went to Africa to defeat this man in the famous battle of Zama
  • Fence painting & frog jumping contests are highlights of an annual festival held in this Missouri city
  • In 218 B.C. this Carthaginian general captured & heavily damaged Turin; he loved it when a plan came together
  • In his teens he began helping Hasdrubal impose Carthaginian domination on the Iberian Peninsula
  • Leaving for Italy in 218 B.C., he gave command of the Carthaginian army in Spain to his brother Hasdrubal
  • During this Carthaginian's crossing of the Alps in 218 B.C., he lost at least 10,000 men & most of his elephants
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) At the 216 B.C. Battle of Cannae the Romans charged the center as this Carthaginian general executed a double envelopment maneuver, surrounding and destroying the Romans
  • 2001:"Ten years ago he could get to you from behind the glass. On Feb. 9th he's out"
  • In 195 B.C. this North African leader fled to Syria with the Romans in hot pursuit
  • Give me this 1st name of a veep under Lincoln & I'll tell you of a Carthaginian general with the same name
  • In the Second Punic War, this Carthaginian made alliance with the Gallic Cenomani against the Romans
  • "Rome: Total War--Barbarian Invasion" allows you to control this Carthaginian's elephants
  • In 218 B.C. he crossed the Alps with an army of 40,000 men in just 15 days, braving the elements & hostile tribes

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