Sponsor |  alice44 | Jan 20, 8:34am | Is the defeated great warrior Hannibal? (I have yet to find who defeated him.)
Clue repeat: Roman statesman and general. Defeated one regarded as the greatest military figure of his time. Second clue Earlier than Octavian. |
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Sponsor | | alice44 | Jan 20, 8:38am | | Hannibal is who the Roman defeated? |
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Sponsor | | kitakami | Jan 20, 8:40am | | No, I mean the general he defeated was Hannibal Barca. |
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Sponsor | | alice44 | Jan 20, 8:40am | | he he (I am NOT awake!) |
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Sponsor | | kitakami | Jan 20, 8:42am | | Autotyping again? ;) |
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Sponsor | | alice44 | Jan 20, 8:55am | I have read (in my sleep) the whole blasted website and I can't see who defeated him.
I feel like an i dot °
An estimated 60,000-70,000 Romans were killed or captured at Cannae -- the bloodiest single day of battle. |
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Sponsor | | jasper1949 | Jan 20, 8:58am | Scipio Africanus defeated Hannibal at Zama(sp) in 202 BCE in Carthage.
Hannibal never lost in Italy. Perhaps his biggest mistake was not to sack Rome immediately after Cannae, a battle in which he used the pincer movement, still taught today I am told ,in military tactics, to encircle and destroy the Republican Army. |
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Sponsor | | kitakami | Jan 20, 9:00am | The Roman I have in mind was described by the noted British military historian B. H. Liddell Hart as "greater than Napoleon."
...and Jasper has it! |
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Sponsor | | alice44 | Jan 20, 9:03am | ohh piffel I skipped over him due to the Africanus moniker.
coffee time |
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