Greg Jenner
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You're Dead to Me
Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit)
OK, Jo, how do you convince elephants to go off mountain pistes?
You're Dead to Me
Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit)
He leaves with 37 and he shows up with... We don't know.
You're Dead to Me
Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit)
OK, so he leaves Siberia with 50,000 soldiers on foot, 9,000 cavalry, 37 elephants.
You're Dead to Me
Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit)
How many soldiers do you think he arrives with, Darren?
You're Dead to Me
Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit)
I'm going to go 20,000.
You're Dead to Me
Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit)
As far as we can tell, Joe, he raised 20,000 soldiers to left and about 6,000 cavalry.
You're Dead to Me
Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit)
So he's lost more than half his army.
You're Dead to Me
Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit)
Was there a Roman army waiting for him to ambush him?
You're Dead to Me
Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit)
So he sets fire to live cows and charges them at the Romans.
You're Dead to Me
Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit)
So geographically, where is he now, Hannibal, after this big win at Cannae?
You're Dead to Me
Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit)
So how close is he to Rome?
You're Dead to Me
Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit)
Joe, does he march on Rome?
You're Dead to Me
Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit)
Because Darren would.
You're Dead to Me
Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit)
This is a later Roman historian called Livy.