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In Italy he inflicted many major defeats on the Romans like the Battle of Cannae but prevented from a mortal blow by the tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus
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Hannibal was born in 247 B.C. and was the oldest son of Hamilcar Barca.
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In 218 B.C. he went up the Rhone River and crossed the Alps between Little St. Bernard and Mt. Genevre passes.
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About 196 he became a shophet or chief magistrate of Carthage.
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He was the commander in the second Punic War in Italy (218–203 BC) and his army numbered 38,000 infantry, 8,000 cavalry, and 37 war elephants.[
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He commited suicide in 183 or 182 to avoid surrending to Rome