The campaigns of Hannibal arranged and critically consideredLongman, 1858 - 195 pagina's |
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... Africa , Spain , and Sicily , and pointing out the effect which they exercised on the contest in Italy , and on the final evacuation of that peninsula by Hannibal . I have endeavoured to avoid fatiguing the reader with useless details ...
... Africa , Spain , and Sicily , and pointing out the effect which they exercised on the contest in Italy , and on the final evacuation of that peninsula by Hannibal . I have endeavoured to avoid fatiguing the reader with useless details ...
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... Africans who accompanied him to Italy had been trained to a great extent on that system . But the unwieldy pike had been given up ; and after the battle of the Trebbia Hannibal armed his African sol- diers in the Roman fashion . The ...
... Africans who accompanied him to Italy had been trained to a great extent on that system . But the unwieldy pike had been given up ; and after the battle of the Trebbia Hannibal armed his African sol- diers in the Roman fashion . The ...
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... Africans formed the centre ; while innumerable troops of Numidian horsemen , taken from all the tribes of the Desert , swarmed about on unsaddled horses , and formed the wings ; the van was composed of Balearic slingers ; and a line of ...
... Africans formed the centre ; while innumerable troops of Numidian horsemen , taken from all the tribes of the Desert , swarmed about on unsaddled horses , and formed the wings ; the van was composed of Balearic slingers ; and a line of ...
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... African infantry after the Roman fashion , by means of the arms taken in the battle . The Gauls carried long ... Africans , and Gauls . His light infantry , of the famous and for- midable Balearic slingers and Gaulish irregulars . The ...
... African infantry after the Roman fashion , by means of the arms taken in the battle . The Gauls carried long ... Africans , and Gauls . His light infantry , of the famous and for- midable Balearic slingers and Gaulish irregulars . The ...
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sir Patrick Leonard MacDougall. Hannibal carried with him out of the mountains only 12,000 African and 8000 Spanish ... Africa , in the hope by threatening Carthage to recall Hannibal to its defence . But Hannibal had not neglected among ...
sir Patrick Leonard MacDougall. Hannibal carried with him out of the mountains only 12,000 African and 8000 Spanish ... Africa , in the hope by threatening Carthage to recall Hannibal to its defence . But Hannibal had not neglected among ...
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