Hannibal

the greatest general of antiquity, was born in B.C. 247. At the ajje of twenty-five he became Commander-in-Chief of the Cart hag in i an forces, and undertook his great march acro the Pyrenees, the Rhone, and the Alps to Rome. He fought a battle on the banks of the Ticino, one at Thrasymenus, and one at Cannae, when 40.000 to 50.000 Romans were slain. When the second Punic War ended (202 B.C.), he became a civil magistrate in Carthage, and died in B.C. 183. HASTINGS,