Crossed Alps facts
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The ancient Romans built statues of Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps and almost conquered the city, in Rome itself to advertise their defeat of such a worthy adversary
how many elephants crossed the alps?
In 1959, a group attempting to find the path used by Hannibal's army to cross the Alps and invade Roman Italy successfully traversed the Alps from France to Italy with an 11yr old former circus elephant named Jumbo.
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what carthaginian general crossed the alps?
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The artist David painted not one but FIVE copies of his famous "Napoleon crossing the alps", all of which survive to this day
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Napoleon Crossing the Alps refers to 5 versions of an oil on canvas equestrian portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte painted by the French artist Jacques-Louis David between 1801 and 1805
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Hannibal's greatest military maneuver wasn't crossing the Alps but at Cannae when his smaller army completely surrounded and destroyed a much larger army
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Hannibal of Carthage crossed the Alps into Italy during the winter of 218 BC with 46,000 troops and 37 elephants. He lost half his men, but went on to crush the Romans in Italy after countless successive battles undefeated for 16 years.
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When his generals declared it impossible to cross the Alps with elephants, Hannibal responded :"I will either find a way, or make one".
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In 218 BC, in order to invade Italy Hannibal Barca led his army of 94000 soldiers and elephants across the Alps; by the end of the crossing only 26000 remained alive.
