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Hannibal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3207 words) |
 | In 189 BC the Romans, having defeated Antiochus in a war, demanded that he turn Hannibal over to them and the general fled again, this time to the court of King Prusias I of Bithynia. |
| In 210 BC Hannibal again proved his superiority in tactics by a severe defeat inflicted at Herdoniac (modern Ordona) in Apulia upon a proconsular army, and in 208 BC destroyed a Roman force engaged in the siege of Locri Epizephyrii. |
| But with the loss of Tarentum in 209 BC and the gradual reconquest by the Romans of Samnium and Lucania his hold on south Italy was almost lost. |
| ninemsn Encarta - Hannibal (general) (824 words) |
| Hannibal (general) (247-182 bc), Carthaginian general, son of Hamilcar Barca, whose march on Rome from Spain across the Alps between 218 and 217 bc remains one of the greatest feats in military history. |
| He inflicted crushing defeats on the Romans under Scipio Africanus the Elder at the battles (218 bc) of Ticinus (Ticino) and Trebia (Trebbia), and under the Roman consul Gaius Flaminius at Lake Trasimene (217 bc). |
| In 202 bc, after 15 years, and with the military fortunes of Carthage rapidly declining, Hannibal was recalled to Africa to direct the defence of his country against a Roman invasion under Scipio Africanus the Elder. |
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