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Gaul is France. The mountains between France and Spain are the Pyrenees. However I thought Hannibal was supposed to have taken the elephants across the Alps.
Gaul is France. The mountains between France and Spain are the Pyrenees. However I thought Hannibal was supposed to have taken the elephants across the Alps.
Mercenary soldiers recruited in North Africa, Spain and Gaul.
The Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca had to cross 2 mountain ranges on his overland route fom Hispania ( modern day Spain ) to Italy. In the spring of 218 B.C., he left his winter camp in north east Spain and crossed the mountains of the Pyrenees. After crossing the Rhone River, his army including the remaining war-elephants, reached the Alps by the autumn of that year. The crossing of the Alps mountain range was arguably the most difficult section of the journey. It is believed that the crossing of the Alps in wintery conditions reduced his Army to almost half the size that had entered Gaul. As many as 20,000 infantry soldiers were lost in the crossing, many of them to the cold.
was too weak to mount an effective battle against the Romans(:
September 2018 - Hannibal defeated the Gaul Volcae tribe in the Battle of Rhone Crossing.
From Transalpie Gaul, over the Alps and into Cisalpine Gaul in northern Italy in order to threaten Rome.
The products that came from Italy Gaul and Spain were a olives grapes and olive oil .
The Visigoths did. Later they occupied Spain and Portugal and were pushed out of southwestern Gaul by the Franks,
Spain became part of the ancient Roman empire as a result of its victories in the Punic Wars. Gaul was conquered by Julius Caesar hundreds of years later. Both Spain and Gaul greatly expanded Roman power in what is now western Europe.
The Vandals, Alans and Sueves moved from Gaul to Spain. The Visigoths then also invaded Spain and became the rulers there. The Vandals and Alans moved on To Africa.
The Roman fleet was dominant so Hannibal had to go overland. That route was through southern Gaul and Italy.