Well, Hannibal was never in command of Spain. Spain is a present day country. He was a Carthaginian, and the Carthaginians conquered part of the Iberian Peninsula (present day Spain). He was in command his whole adult life. He was 29 when the Second Punic War started, which is the time for which he is famous.
In Carthage and its territories in Spain.
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.
221-218 BCE.
Hannibal did not go directly to Rome from Carthage, which was in Tunisia. He went via Spain, and crossed the Alps to get to Italy.
The Romans did not have a plan to oppose Hannibal. Hannibal provoked the Second Punic War by attacking Saguntum, a city in Spain which was a Roman ally. The Romans attempted negotiations, but these failed and they had to declare war. Rome had not been following what the Carthaginians were doing in Spain because they were dealing with wars in the Adriatic Sea (on the est coast of Italy) and in northern Italy. Rome sent a fleet to Spain to fight there because Spain was the flash-point Hannibal caught them by surprise by marching on Italy.
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Hannibal was not from Ancient Rome. He was a Carthaginian. He was 25 when he succeed his father-in-law Hasdrubal (who was assassinated in 221 BC) as the ruler and military commander of the territories of his family in southern Spain.
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Hannibal was only in his early 20s when he went to Spain. He became king at the death of his father when he was just 18.
Hannibal was only twenty-five years old when he first went to war against the Romans in Spain.
Hannibal did not land in Spain. It was his father who landed in Spain and conquered southern Spain
The Military leader Hannibal was born in Carthage, now Spain.
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In Carthage and its territories in Spain.
It was the Romans under the command of Publius Cornelius Scipio who defeated Hannibal at the battle of Zama in 202 bc.
Hannibal lived to be 65 which is from 247BC to 182BC
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.