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Hannibal Barca crossed the Alps in October 218 BCE with 37 war elephants. All but one were dead within four months. At the Battle of Zama in 202 BCE, Hannibal's 80 fresh African elephants panicked at Roman trumpet signals, turned, and trampled their own infantry. The defeat ended the Second Punic War and Carthaginian power.
Read the story →Marcus Claudius Marcellus took Syracuse in 212 BC after a two-year siege. He had ordered Archimedes spared. He arrived at the mathematician's house to find him dead by a Roman soldier's spear. Marcellus had the killer executed, gave Archimedes a state funeral, and is recorded as having wept publicly at the destruction of the captured city.
Read the story →Marcus Claudius Marcellus was the Roman consul who finally took Syracuse in 212 BC after a two-year siege. He had ordered Archimedes spared and reportedly wept when he learned the mathematician had been killed anyway. Three years later Marcellus was ambushed and killed by Hannibal's scouts in southern Italy.
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