Professor Josephine Quinn
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He leaves Siberia with 37 elephants and we honestly don't know how many arrive in Italy.
Yeah, there is, but it doesn't do them much good because he has this series of incredible victories.
In his first months in Italy, he wins the Battle of Ticinus in November, right after he's crossed the Alps.
He wins the Battle of Trebia in December.
Then the following June, he wins this enormous battle at Lake Trasimene.
So this is all kind of northern central Italy.
And then he carries on south.
And in the autumn of 2017, there's a...
In the autumn of 2017, Rome has a temporary dictator because it's a state of emergency, Quintus Fabius Maximus, and he tries to block a pass in Apulia and ambush the Carthaginian army.
But what Hannibal does is that he ties burning brands to the horns of 2,000 cattle and drives them up against the Roman troops.
gets rid of the Roman troops.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's got a lot of time on his hands, hasn't he?
He's doing very well.
He also gains loads of allies in Italy and then comes the Battle of Cannae and this is the biggest defeat of all for the Romans, unsurprisingly.