Hamilicar made his son, Hannibal, swear never to be friends with Rome and at the earliest opportunity become an enemy of Rome. Hamilicar was a general in the First Punic War and he talked about his son being a great Carthaginian general someday. Hamilicar shaped Hannibal into being a leader when he got older. Hannibal had many good personality traits to be a leader, like persistence and cunning. He got those from his father along with his animosity for Rome. The tactics and strategies used by Hannibal during the Second Punic War were unusual. His plan to take Rome was to convince Rome’s allies that Carthage was the most powerful empire and that they should join Carthage instead of Rome. Then when the allies joined Carthage they would attack and defeat Rome. Besides the big plan, he did a tactic no one had done before, he brought around 40 elephants across the Alps and Apennines Mountain ranges to the Italian Peninsula along with almost 60,000 men. Many of those elephants and men died due to the harsh conditions of the Alps and the marsh they later crossed. The remaining
Hamilicar made his son, Hannibal, swear never to be friends with Rome and at the earliest opportunity become an enemy of Rome. Hamilicar was a general in the First Punic War and he talked about his son being a great Carthaginian general someday. Hamilicar shaped Hannibal into being a leader when he got older. Hannibal had many good personality traits to be a leader, like persistence and cunning. He got those from his father along with his animosity for Rome. The tactics and strategies used by Hannibal during the Second Punic War were unusual. His plan to take Rome was to convince Rome’s allies that Carthage was the most powerful empire and that they should join Carthage instead of Rome. Then when the allies joined Carthage they would attack and defeat Rome. Besides the big plan, he did a tactic no one had done before, he brought around 40 elephants across the Alps and Apennines Mountain ranges to the Italian Peninsula along with almost 60,000 men. Many of those elephants and men died due to the harsh conditions of the Alps and the marsh they later crossed. The remaining