Pretty good

4) Romans kicked Hannibal's ass in the end, on its own turf.


During his invasion of Italy he defeated the Romans in a series of battles, out of which the most famous included the Battles of Trebia, Trasimene and Cannae. After Cannae he seized the second largest city in Italy, Capua, but he lacked the strength necessary to attack the city of Rome itself. He maintained an army in Italy for more than a decade afterward, never losing a major engagement, but never able to push the war through to a conclusion. During that period of time, the Roman armies regrouped. A Roman counter-invasion of North Africa forced him to return to Carthage, where he was defeated in the Battle of Zama. The defeat forced the Carthaginian Senate to send him into exile. During this exile, he lived at the Seleucid court, where he acted as military advisor to Antiochus III in his war against Rome. Defeated in a naval battle, Hannibal fled again, this time to the Bithynian court. When the Romans demanded his surrender, he preferred to commit suicide rather than submit.

Exactly, Hannibal was too smart to take Rome, not too merciful...banking on support from Carthage and defections of more of Rome's allies would have given him a better, quicker and more decisive vistory....

People have likened Hannibal taking Roman to Hitler's invasion of England...actually i have little doubts that the German's would have kicked our asses if it weren't for their invasion of Russia...

If Hannibal had marched on the city (Italy) after Cannae, this would have involved a complete reversal of his long-term strategy, for despite what the Romans no doubt feared, the destruction of the city probably formed no part of his plans. Even Livy states that after the battle he told his Roman prisoners that "his war with Rome was not to the death, they were striving for honour and for empire," and this is borne out by the embassy he sent to the city, led by Carthalo, to propose terms. What Hanibal hoped to achieve was to win over Rome's Latin and Italian allies.

Source: J.F. Lazenby's "Hannibal's War" This book is replete with (the even controversial discrepensies) of Livy, Polibius, Plutarch, Appian and Cassius and many other historians.

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finially someone who read their history . hannibal believed he couldn't
lay siege to rome with only around 40,000 troops.but his generals
believed he might cut of supply lines to rome and starve them out
which hannibal felt he could not.he felt he needed to resupply his
troops and rest up.it might of been a huge error on his part because
rome sent a army to spain cutting off his supplies then invaded carthage
and having them beg him to come back to protect them.if hannibal had
stayed in rome and invaded the city he might of had a chance to defeat
rome but he could not stop from going home to save his city which
betrayed him so many times.and the reason he lost his battle with
scipio was his calvary deserted him for roman gold and left him with
only a tired ground force plus scipio had learned how to deal with
the elephants.so a great general loyal to his city was beaten but
was able to escape for awhile.until he took his own life before
letting rome take him.hannibal the terror of rome.one man who
might of beaten rome.

erm and? They call it france to make the story for the regular viewer without historical background easier to follow. you can hardly call that an inaccuracie or you may just as well mention that: omg they all speak english! and that while the english language didnt excist untill the 16th centuary.