Hannibal Barca (247-183 BC) was a Carthaginian general and one of the greatest s of the ancient world. A brilliant strategist, he developed tactics of outflanking and surrounding the enemy with the combined forces of infantry and cavalry. As a boy of...

247-183 B.C. Carthaginian general who is regarded as one of the greatest military commanders of the ancient world. Hannibal, whose father was the general of the Carthaginian army and who waged the First Punic War (264-241) against the Romans, succeeded...

Hannibal, son of Hamilcar Barca, (247 BC – ca. 183 BC,[1][2][3][4][5] short form Hannibal) was a Carthaginian military commander and tactician, later also working in other professions, who is popularly credited as one of the finest commanders in...

Lancel, Serge Hannibal Trans. Antonia Nevill Oxford: Blackwell Publishers 243 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-631-20631-0 Publication Date: April 1998 "Nothing and nobody could cause Trajan's Rome to tremble, at the height of its power yet, three centuries later, the memory was still alive...

Thomas Harris Delacorte, $27.95 (496p) ISBN 0-385-29929-X Dr. Hannibal Lecter has swallowed the most succulent morsel of all: the genius of the man who imagined him. Like other great fictive creatures--Holmes, Dracula, Bond--Lecter has ascended from private character to public icon: America's...

Forensics experts said Monday that flesh found on a plate, fork and frying pan in the apartment of an aspiring horror novelist was human, and that DNA tests were planned to confirm whether it came from the body of his girlfriend.Dr. Rodolfo Rojo, chief medical...

Ray Heilwagen has his wallet back, 62 years after he lost it in France during World War II. Late last year, Heilwagen received a call from Stephen Breitenstein of Palatine, Ill."He said, 'Did you lose a billfold?' and I remembered I did," Heilwagen told the...

Details the great Carthaginian general Hannibal's historic struggle against Rome, along with other details of his life. Examines the impact of the so-called Punic Wars (derived from the Latin for "Phoenician"), fought between Rome and Carthage, of which the second or Hannibalic war was the climax.