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He used a solar mirror comprised of aluminium or copper sheets angled to reflect sunlight into a concentrated solar ray. It was much like a magnifying glass

The device described above was invented by Archimedes to defend his city of Syracuse from the Roman siege. The Romans managed to seize Syracuse. It had nothing to do with Hannibal.

Hannibal did not have any secret weapons. Hannibal took elephants to Italy However, this was was not the first time elephants were used against the Romans. King Pyrrhus of Epirus (in Greece) had used them in his Pyrrhic War (280-275 BC) in which he tried to invade southern Italy Moreover, Hannibal's elephants died while crossing the Alps in the snowy winter.

Hannibal relied on his great military genius and on a cavalry which was far superior in numbers.

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