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Title: Hannibal

Makers of History

Author: Jacob Abbott

Release Date: December 17, 2008 [EBook #27551]

Language: English

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Makers of History

Hannibal

BY JACOB ABBOTT

WITH ENGRAVINGS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

1901

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand

eight hundred and forty-nine, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District

of New York.

Copyright, 1876, by JACOB ABBOTT.

PREFACE

The author of this series has made it his special object to confine himself very strictly, even in the most minute details which he records, to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded upon history, but history itself, without any embellishment or any deviations from the strict truth, so far as it can now be discovered by an attentive examination of the annals written at the time when the events themselves occurred. In writing the narratives, the author has endeavored to avail himself of the best sources of information which this country affords; and though, of course, there must be in these volumes, as in all historical narratives, more or less of imperfection and error, there is no intentional embellishment. Nothing is stated, not even the most minute and apparently imaginary details, without what was deemed good historical authority. The readers, therefore, may rely upon the record as the truth, and nothing but the truth, so far as an honest purpose and a careful examination have been effectual in ascertaining it.

CONTENTS.

Chapter

Page

I. THE FIRST PUNIC WAR

13

II. HANNIBAL AT SAGUNTUM

33

OPENING OF THE SECOND PUNIC

III.

52

WAR

IV. THE PASSAGE OF THE RHONE

69

V. HANNIBAL CROSSES THE ALPS

90

HANNIBAL IN THE NORTH OF

VI.

126

ITALY

VII. THE APENNINES

144