How (and Where) Did Hannibal Cross the Alps? Experts Finally Have Answers
When you purchase through link on our site , we may earn an affiliate commissioning . Here ’s how it work . For over 2,000 years , historiographer have argued over the path used by the Carthaginian full general Hannibal to guide his army — 30,000 soldiers , 37 elephant and 15,000 knight — over the Alps and into Italy in just 16 days , conducting a military lying in wait against the Romans that was unprecedented in the history of warfare ....