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Yes, indeed, the Carthaginian General's career was the basis of a movie called simply Hannibal! made around l960. action adventure on a mountainous scope. Elephants over the Alps, for starters. Seem to recall it had something to do with Kirk Douglas, but not sure. In real life Hannibal was almost certainly black. Barca means lightning or flash, a reference to his assault tactics!
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What is the movie Red Dragon about?
The movie Red Dragon is about The Serial Killer Hannibal Lecter and although made after Silence of the Lambs it is actually a prequel. It stars Anthony Hopkins.
What would have happened if Hannibal had won the battle of Zama?
If Hannibal would have won the Battle of Zama, this would not have made a big difference to the outcome of the Second Punic War. Hannibal's campaign in Italy had already come to a dead end. He has already lost two main cities in the south of Italy which had allied with him (Capua) or conquered by him (Tarentum). He had been further weakened by the Roman legions and got stuck in southern Italy. The army of his brother (Hasdrubal) which was bringing reinforcements and siege machines from Spain, had been destroyed in central Italy. As a result, Hannibal withdrew to the easily defensible mountains of Calabria (the toe of Italy). Scipio's Afircanus' victory against the Carthaginians in southern Spain led to the loss of the Carthaginian territories there (which were Hannibal's power base), which mean that Hannibal could no longer hope for further reinforcements from there. Hannibal had been confined to Calabria for four years. The point of Scipio Africanus taking the war to Africa (Tunisia), Carthage's homeland, was to force Hannibal to leave Italy. Carthage recalled Hannibal to Africa to to defend the city. Therefore, even if Scipio had lost the Battle of Zama, he would have still achieved his objective of getting Hannibal out of Italy. He would have probably just returned to Sicily.
Was Hannibal lecter a real person?
No, Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character. Richard Harris, the author of the 'Hannibal' novels, has never stated publicly on whom, if anyone, Hannibal is based. Many have speculated who it might be based on crimes committed using similar methods of operation.
Why were the Carthaginians so successful in battle?
By becoming a naval power to match the Carthaginians, by developing superior land power, and by establishing allies. Rome had already established allies when she expanded into Italy before the three Punic Wars with Carthage. She had forced the peoples she had defeated into military alliances in which they had to provide soldiers for the Romans at their own expense. This had boosted Rome's military power long before the mentioned wars. In the Frist Punic war Rome, first the first time, built a large military fleet which matched the Carthaginian one in size, but not in quality of shipbuilding and skills of the rowers. Carthage and their Phoenician motherland had been a major naval power (both merchant and military) for a long time and their shipbuilding and naval skills were second to none. The Romans were inexperienced. What made the final difference was that when both the Carthaginian and Roman states were financially exhausted and could not afford a new fleet, rich Roman citizens paid for a new fleet. This fleet won the last naval battle and destroyed the last Carthaginian fleet. Rome had control of the sea and Carthage had to sue for peace. In the Second Punic War the land power of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general, was actually far superior to that of the Romans. He fought a campaign in Italy and utterly routed the Roman armies in a number of battles, causing the death of hundreds of thousands of Roman and allied soldiers. What tipped the balance in favour of Rome were four main factors: 1) The Romans adopted a strategy of attrition which involved avoiding open battle and trying to wear Hannibal down by harassing his through guerrilla tactics. This caused Hannibal's war effort to get bogged down in southern Italy, far from Rome. 2) Hannibal had lost his siege machines when he crossed the Alps to reach Italy. Without this he could not attack Rome. His brother Hasdrubal tried to bring siege machines and reinforcements from Spain, but he was intercepted and his army was routed before he linked up with Hannibal. Not receiving the siege machines was the beginning of the end for Hannibal. 3) At this point the Carthaginian senate refused to support Hannibal and to send him supplies or reinforcements. Many people in Carthage were against the war. 4) The Romans found in Scipio Africanus a general who could match Hannibal's military genius. He defeated the Carthaginians in Spain in the battle of Ilipa. Spain fell under the Romans, depriving the Carthaginians with their main source of wealth (from silver mines) and with the supply of the bulk of their soldiers (who were recruited in Spain) and meant that Hannibal could not receive help from Spain. Scipio Africanus then landed in Africa to attack Carthage and defeated Hannibal in the battle of Zama. In the Third Punic War Rome declared war to destroy Carthage. Carthage had been demilitarised under the terms of the peace treaty. When Carthage finished to pay the war indemnities after 50 years, she considered herself free from the treaty and raised an army to fight the raids by the neighbouring Numidian kingdom. Rome was worried about a resurgence of Carthaginian military power. It was easy for Rome to defeat and destroy Carthage because she had lost all her possessions in the western Mediterranean and she was confined to her original lands in northern Tunisia
When was the horror movie Hack made?
The movie Hack! was made in 2007.
What was the southermost iberian city allied with rome?
Saguntum was the southernmost Iberian city in the sense that it was the southernmost non-Carthaginian city in Hispania. Here Iberian refers to the Iberian peoples who lived in various parts of Hispania, not the Iberian Peninsula. Geographically, it was not the southernmost city in the Iberian Peninsula. In fact it lied only about half way down the eastern coast of Spain, some 30 km (18 miles) north of Valencia. The south of Spain had been conquered by the Barca (Hannibal's) family and was a Carthaginian territory. Saguntum was the southernmost of the Hellenised cities north of the Carthaginian territory along the eastern coast of Hispania. All of these cities allied with the Romans to get protection against the possibility of northward Carthaginian expansion at their expense. Being the southernmost of the non-Carthaginian cities and very close to the Carthaginian territory made an alliance with Rome even more compelling.
Who was Hannibal the warrior and where was he born?
Hannibal Barca was the son of General Hamilcar Barca of Carthage, Africa. He was born in 247 B.C. in Carthage, Africa. Hannibal had two brothers who joined him in battle against Rome, Italy. They were Hasdrubal Barca and Magos Barca. In an effort to surprise and overtake the city of Rome, during the dead of winter, Hannibal took 50 elephants and 50,000 agile warrior over the ice-covered Pyrenees Mountains. Against hostile mountain tribes and horrible wintry conditions, Hannibal made his way into Northern Italy.Review the Print-on-demand paperback and/or the ebook by Joseph Peebles, "Hannibal: The Ultimate Warrior. Bad to the Bone" for the complete story. This book is available at:Apple iTunes.comAmazon.comBarnes & Nobles.comKobo.comGoogle BooksSony BooksAnd a giant list of other paperback and ebook carriers.
What activities did Hannibal General do?
If you are referring to Hannibal's hobbies, they are not known.Prior to the Second Punic war, Hannibal was the ruler of the Carthaginian territories in southern Spain which belonged to his family, the Barca, which had conquered these lands. Hannibal was also a politician from one of the most politically powerful Carthaginian families. After the Second Punic War he was elected as head of Carthage. He tackled corruption and challenged the power of the oligarchy and made Carthage relatively more democratic. Some of his political opponents accused him of trying to prepare Carthage for war against Rome again. The Romans ordered that Hannibal be handed over to them and he fled the city. Hannibal became a military advisor to Antiochus III, the Seleucid king in Syria who was preparing for was against Rome. He was commander of the Seleucid fleet in two naval battles against Rome. When Antiochus was defeated, Hannibal became a military advisor of Prusias I, the king of Bithynia (in north-western Turkey) who was at war with the neighbouring Kingdom of Pergamon, an ally of Rome. He won a naval battle and two land battles. The Romans demanded that Prusias surrender Hannibal to them. Prusias had to give in to the pressure. Hannibal committed suicide before this happened.
What is the movie Red Dragon about?
The movie Red Dragon is about The Serial Killer Hannibal Lecter and although made after Silence of the Lambs it is actually a prequel. It stars Anthony Hopkins.
Why did the Romans want to kill Hannibal?
Hannibal Barca was a capable Carthaginian general who brought war/invading army to the Roman mainland and threatened the city of Rome itself .Hannibal was also an extremely skillful tactician. He annihilated the Romans in many battles which is why the Romans were so afraid of him. He went all the way from Spain through Europe, through the Alps, and into Rome, wreaking havoc in his path. Then, when he reached Italy he marched about the countryside, pillaging everything. However, he could not attack Rome because he didn't have the war-machines necessarily. Since he attacked Rome without the full backing of the Carthaginian war council, Hannibal was having trouble sustaining his troops out in the countryside. His position was made even more difficult because the Romans were pestering him with guerrilla raids which his vastly superior tactical skills were useless against since the raids happened randomly. Being stranded in the countryside eventually led to his retreat to Carthage and the razing of Carthage.Another View:Rome's strength was in its Italian allies which gave it greater resources than Hannibal commanded. As Hannibal did not have a seige train, he could not capture Rome itself, and he set about detaching its Italian allies. To his ability to defeat Rome's armies in the field he added the erosion of their support and potential isolation and eventual defeat.It then became a battle for the allies. Rome managed to hang on to some of the more important ones, then took a leaf from Hannibal's strategy and sent an army to threaten the city of Carthage in North Africa, which brought about Hannibal's recall to defend the city.
What made the Second Punic War unique?
All wars have some unique historical aspect, and the Second Punic War was no exception. This was the war when the great military leader Hannibal, who commanded the Carthaginian forces against Rome, made his famous crossing of the Alps during his effort to invade Italy. It proved to be a costly decision, both in time and in manpower, and ultimately, Hannibal and his forces lost the war.
Did Hannibal fight for Carthaginians?
Hannibal, the son of Hamilcar Barca, was a leading general for Carthage in what many historians refer to as the Second Carthaginian War, and as many know it the Second Punic War. Hannibal began his campaign against ancient Rome by attacking an ally of Rome in Spain, Saguntum in 219 BC. With a vast, fit & trained army along with 40 war elephants, Hannibal made a daring crossing of the Alps in 218 BC. He defeated a Roman army at Trasimine in 217 BC. He later gave the Roman legions one of their worst defeats at the battle of Cannae in 216 BC. He waged further campaigns in the Italian peninsula and had to depart from Italy in 203 BC to defend his capital of Carthage against Roman forces moving in Northern Africa. At the Battle of Zama, Hannibal was defeated by the Romans and their allies. Carthage had to surrender and take the terms of the peace treaty drawn up by Rome.
Was Hannibal defeated at Zama?
Unlike the previous battles of the second Punic War, where the Carthaginian cavalry greatly outnumbered the Roman cavalry (it made up 2/3 of Carthaginian army while the Roman cavalry accounted for only 1/3) at Zama the Roman cavalry was larger (6,000 versus 4,000). Scipio Africanus (the Roman commander) had the support of the Numidian cavalry (from Algeria, next door to Carthage) which defected from the Carthaginians to the Romans. Scipio Africanus arranged gaps between the lines of its heavy infantry which acted as lanes through which the Carthaginian war elephants could pass without harming the Roman soldiers and had them hidden with the light infantry. Hannibal set his elephants and light infantry against the Romans. Scipio ordered his cavalry to blow horns to frighten the elephants. Some of them turned back towards the Carthaginian left wing and threw it into disarray. Scipio got his cavalry to attack this wing. The other elephants were directed towards the gaps and were taken to the rear of the Roman infantry, which then closed its ranks. The Carthaginian cavalry lured the Roman cavalry into chasing them to take them away from the battlefield so that they would not attack the Carthaginian rear. The Roman left wing attacked the Carthaginian right wing and Scipio marched the centre towards the Carthaginian one. Hannibal kept his third line (composed of veterans from the campaign in Italy) as reserve. The Romans first and second line had the better over their Carthaginian equivalents. There was a pause and both armies regrouped. Scipio, who was waiting for the return of his cavalry, delayed the resumption of the battle. When it resumed it was a stalemate. However, in the meantime the Roman cavalry had routed the Carthaginian one. Then it returned to the battle and attacked the rear of the Carthaginian infantry, which was encircled and slaughtered. 20,000 Carthaginians died and 20,000 were taken as prisoners. The Romans only lost 2,500 men.
What methods did Hannibal Barca use during crossing the alps?
he used the ancient kinds of snowshoes made to climb the mountain because of the snow on the cliffs but the method he used to get down the mountain was by melting the rock with a strong mixture of melting solution to melt the rock and get over the Alps.
Why did Hannibal Barca hate Rome?
Hannibal hated Rome because his father hated Rome---sort of a family tradition. As a youngster, Hannibal was made to swear an oath of hatred against Rome by his father.Hannibal hated Rome because his father hated Rome---sort of a family tradition. As a youngster, Hannibal was made to swear an oath of hatred against Rome by his father.Hannibal hated Rome because his father hated Rome---sort of a family tradition. As a youngster, Hannibal was made to swear an oath of hatred against Rome by his father.Hannibal hated Rome because his father hated Rome---sort of a family tradition. As a youngster, Hannibal was made to swear an oath of hatred against Rome by his father.Hannibal hated Rome because his father hated Rome---sort of a family tradition. As a youngster, Hannibal was made to swear an oath of hatred against Rome by his father.Hannibal hated Rome because his father hated Rome---sort of a family tradition. As a youngster, Hannibal was made to swear an oath of hatred against Rome by his father.Hannibal hated Rome because his father hated Rome---sort of a family tradition. As a youngster, Hannibal was made to swear an oath of hatred against Rome by his father.Hannibal hated Rome because his father hated Rome---sort of a family tradition. As a youngster, Hannibal was made to swear an oath of hatred against Rome by his father.Hannibal hated Rome because his father hated Rome---sort of a family tradition. As a youngster, Hannibal was made to swear an oath of hatred against Rome by his father.
Who was Hannibal and what did he try to do?
Hannibal was the leader of the Carthaginian army and he fought against the Romans in 1 war commonly known as the 2nd Punic war. did not fight in the first, lost the second when he crossed the alps with 40 war elephants and lost all but . and did not fight in the third.
Why was Hannibal Lecter a cannibal?
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