The campaigns of Hannibal arranged and critically consideredLongman, 1858 - 195 páginas |
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... Scipio's Numidian allies came up on their flank ; when at last , surrounded and overpowered , the veteran battalions sealed their devotion to their general with their blood ! " The general appearance of a Carthaginian army has been ...
... Scipio's Numidian allies came up on their flank ; when at last , surrounded and overpowered , the veteran battalions sealed their devotion to their general with their blood ! " The general appearance of a Carthaginian army has been ...
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... Scipio , one of the Roman consuls for the year , had lately arrived off the mouth of the Rhone with a fleet and army on his way to Spain ; and learning there that Hannibal had actually passed the Pyrenees , he disembarked his force ...
... Scipio , one of the Roman consuls for the year , had lately arrived off the mouth of the Rhone with a fleet and army on his way to Spain ; and learning there that Hannibal had actually passed the Pyrenees , he disembarked his force ...
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... Scipio's army . Not many hours elapsed before these horsemen were seen returning to the camp , as if riding for their lives from a pursuing enemy . They had indeed fallen in with the light cavalry sent out by Scipio , who had attacked ...
... Scipio's army . Not many hours elapsed before these horsemen were seen returning to the camp , as if riding for their lives from a pursuing enemy . They had indeed fallen in with the light cavalry sent out by Scipio , who had attacked ...
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... Scipio accordingly again descended the Rhone , and having despatched his army to Spain under the command of his brother , Cnæus Scipio , as his lieutenant , sailed himself to Pisa , whence he proceeded across the Apen- nines to take ...
... Scipio accordingly again descended the Rhone , and having despatched his army to Spain under the command of his brother , Cnæus Scipio , as his lieutenant , sailed himself to Pisa , whence he proceeded across the Apen- nines to take ...
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... Scipio and Ti . Sempronius . Scipio's province was Spain , and it has been already related how , after his unsuccessful en- deavour to stop Hannibal on the Rhone , he despatched his army to that province , while he himself went to ...
... Scipio and Ti . Sempronius . Scipio's province was Spain , and it has been already related how , after his unsuccessful en- deavour to stop Hannibal on the Rhone , he despatched his army to that province , while he himself went to ...
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