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He learned from Pyrrhus' failure 50 years before that Rome's strength was being able to draw on the unlimited manpower of its Italian allies, and that after defeating a Roman army, another was assembled to replace it. He therefore concentrated on detaching Rome's allies - the campaign was essentially a battle for the allies. Hannibal dominated Italy for 15 years against a numerically superior Roman confederation. He wasn't such a bad general after all.

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