Students from the University of Barcelona reconstruct the route taken by Hannibal's troops on their way through Spain to Rome. Photo: University of Barcelona.
1 posted on
01/29/2015 12:59:42 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
...guarantee a regular source of food...
Elephants can eat a lot...
3 posted on
01/29/2015 1:01:25 PM PST by
BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
To: SunkenCiv
Hope they didn’t have to march behind the elephants.
5 posted on
01/29/2015 1:11:34 PM PST by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
“contained ... lead projectiles,”
These were known to the Romans as the deadly “HANNIBULLETS”, made from depleted lead & could go right thru a Roman HumVIII.
6 posted on
01/29/2015 1:17:11 PM PST by
bunkerhill7
(re (`("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))
To: SunkenCiv
There is on the web a translation of a Centurion volunteering for Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus’s Army at a Delictus . I wish I knew where to find it again.
To judge by his record, Chosen Primus Pilus, the Romans were Bad dudes.
8 posted on
01/29/2015 1:26:05 PM PST by
Little Bill
(EVICT Queen Jean)
To: SunkenCiv
11 posted on
01/29/2015 2:34:03 PM PST by
Bigg Red
(Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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