VIII. THE DICTATOR FABIUS
163
IX. THE BATTLE OF CANNÆ
185
X. SCIPIO
205
HANNIBAL A FUGITIVE AND AN
XI.
235
EXILE
XII. THE DESTRUCTION OF CARTHAGE
262
ENGRAVINGS.
PAGE
MAP
Frontispiece.
THE BATTLE IN THE RIVER
42
THE ELEPHANTS CROSSING THE
87
RHONE
HANNIBAL ON THE ALPS
111
CROSSING THE MARSHES
161
HASDRUBAL'S HEAD
227
THE BURNING OF THE
242
CARTHAGINIAN FLEET
HANNIBAL.
CHAPTER I.
THE FIRST PUNIC WAR.
B.C. 280-249
Hannibal.
Rome and Carthage.
Hannibal was a Carthaginian general. He acquired his great distinction as a warrior by his desperate contests with the Romans. Rome and Carthage grew up
together on opposite sides of the Mediterranean Sea. For about a hundred years
they waged against each other most dreadful wars. There were three of these wars. Rome was successful in the end, and Carthage was entirely destroyed.
There was no real cause for any disagreement between these two nations. Their
hostility to each other was mere rivalry and spontaneous hate. They spoke a different language; they had a different origin; and they lived on opposite sides of the same sea. So they hated and devoured each other.
Tyre.
Founding of Carthage.
Its commercial spirit.
Gold and silver mines.
New Carthage.
Those who have read the history of Alexander the Great, in this series, will recollect the difficulty he experienced in besieging and subduing Tyre, a great maritime city, situated about two miles from the shore, on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Carthage was originally founded by a colony from this city of Tyre, and it soon became a great commercial and maritime power like its
mother. The Carthaginians built ships, and with them explored all parts of the Mediterranean Sea. They visited all the nations on these coasts, purchased the commodities they had to sell, carried them to other nations, and sold them at great advances. They soon began to grow rich and powerful. They hired soldiers
to fight their battles, and began to take possession of the islands of the Mediterranean, and, in some instances, of points on the main land. For example,
in Spain: some of their ships, going there, found that the natives had silver and gold, which they obtained from veins of ore near the surface of the ground. At
