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"Perpetuo vincit qui utitur clementia"

את האלפים חצה חניבעל עם 30 פילים כשהוא עצמו רכוב על פילה גבוהה במיוחד. לאחר הקרבות הראשונים, נאלצו הקרתוגנים להרוג את כל הפילים למעט זה של חניבעל. הפילה הזאת הפכה לסמלו המסחרי עד כדי הופעה על תחריטים מאותה תקופה כמו בוקפלוס-סוסו של אלכסנדר מוקדון. היא המשיכה לשרת את חניבעל בכל מסע המלחמה שלו באיטליה במהלך ה-15 (או משהו כזה) שנים.

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"Perpetuo vincit qui utitur clementia"

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זה מה שמצאתי בגוגל:
http://www.pass.to/HannaVisioN/hannibal.htm

ומתוכו הקטע רלוונטי:

Hamilcar felt the Romans had made him look silly, so he made his son Hannibal swear eternal hatred for the Romans. This was an oath Hannibal took seriously, and he maintained it until the day he died.
Hamilcar's favorite strategy involved using plenty of elephants to scare his enemies. While instructing his son in military science, he always emphasized the need for a great herd. Hamilcar even boasted he would have won the First Punic War if he had been given more of these mighty beasts.

Since the decisive battle of the Punic War was a naval engagement, his boast conjures up a rather grotesque image. Ironically, Hamilcar drowned in 228BC on the back of an elephant.

After his father's death, Hannibal jumped into action. At the helm of a well-trained army, and with his father's great herd, he set out for Rome to seek revenge. The plan was to sneak the elephants over the Alps, and surprise the Romans.

Sneaking an army and thirty-seven elephants over a mountain range turned out to be trickier than Hannibal thought. The grueling fifteen day march cost him half his army, and ended up being a little less than a surprise.

The Romans heard the grunting and cursing in the foothills, and quickly moved into strategic position. Now the second Punic War was under way. The battles raged up and down the Italian coast for the next fifteen years.

Hannibal complained that he could make quick work of the Romans if Carthage would send him just "a few good elephants". Getting his home town to send fresh elephants wasn't easy. They always asked vexing questions about the condition of the elephants they sent last year, and they even expected an accurate accounting for every last elephant.

Hannibal always managed to wangle a few elephants somehow, so he didn't totally run out of them until the battle of Trasimene.

Without an elephant to his name, Hannibal languished. Oddly, his luck on the battlefield was better without the elephants, but Hannibal had lost his spirit. He won several decisive victories, but couldn't bring himself to move on Rome itself.

Elephants were rushed to him from both Spain and Carthage, but shipping problems, and a mini elephant revolt on one of the docks, prevented a successful delivery. Dejected, but not defeated, Hannibal returned to Carthage.

If people remember nothing else about Hannibal, they recall he crossed the Alps "with the elephants." In fact, Hannibal lost most of his elephants in his crossing of the Alps, and the survivors (and resupplied elephants) proved to be of lim ited military value once the Romans learnt how to deal with them..



Although his crossing of the Alps with the elephants is widely remembered, Hannibal made surprisingly little use of them. War elephants proved useful against Iberian tribal forces, though they were somewhat less effective when facing disciplined regulars (see The Trouble with Elephants). In fact, most of the 34 elephants he started with died during the mountain passage or during the severe winter that followed. The last few died after the battle of Trebbia, leaving only one (Serus?) to carry Hannibal through the Etrurian marshes.



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