Who Is Hannibal Barca's Second Punic War?

Hannibal Barca fought for the Carthaginians in The Second Punic War, which had ended in Roman victory. He was always the ambitious person and his dad made him swear an oath of hatred towards the Romans. He died in 183 BCE after he drank a vial containing a poison to avoid falling into enemy hands, then he was cremated and put in a Tophet which holds urns with the cremated remains of dead people.
Hannibal was born in 247 BCE Carthage (Modern Day Tunisia). Barca died in 183 BCE Libyssa (Modern Day Gebze, Turkey) by drinking a vial of poison, ending his life. Hannibal was given command of an army at age 26 which he used to fight in The Second Punic War.
When Hannibal was of the age of 10 years old, his father, Hamilcar, took him into Iberia in 237 BCE. Hamilcar forced Hannibal to swear eternal hatred towards the Romans. When Hamilcar died in 229 BCE, his son-in-law Hasdrubal the Fair took command of his army. In 221 BCE, Hasdrubal was murdered and the …show more content…
Hannibal met little resistance in the Pyrenees whilst marching towards Gaul with 100,000 troops and 40 war elephants. General Scipio tried to engage with Hannibal at the Rhone River, but Hannibal had already crossed it. A remarkable achievement achieved by Hannibal, was when he crossing over the Alps in whilst fighting off guerrillas from the local tribes who moved heavy stones in their path. After 15 days of trying to cross, Hannibal had exited the Alps with 20,000 infantry, 6,000 cavalry and 37 of his war elephants. Three years after crossing the Alps, He battled with Roman General Publius' army with little assistance from Carthage, but was able to kill lots of their men, at the expense of his own. He within 3 miles of Rome before a stalemate had occurred. Hannibal did not have the men to make it to Rome and Publius didn't have a strong enough army to defeat