Hannibal Barca remains one of the most brilliant and audacious military commanders in history. Jacob Abbott’s biography from the Makers of History series follows Hannibal from his Carthaginian upbringing through his legendary crossing of the Alps with war elephants, his stunning victories at Trebia, Lake Trasimene, and Cannae, and his eventual defeat by Scipio Africanus at Zama — a sequence of campaigns that nearly destroyed Rome.
This free EPUB edition is vividly formatted for e-readers. Abbott’s accessible prose makes the Second Punic War and its extraordinary cast of characters compulsively readable for students and general history enthusiasts alike.