Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare

By jacobaw16
  • 202

    Zama

    Hannibal lacked cavalry and was defeated at Zama in 202
  • 203

    recalled

    Finally recalled to North Africa after it was invaded by Scipio Africanus Major in 203
  • 217

    Battle of Lake Trasimene

    Arriving in Etruria in the spring of 217 BC, Hannibal decided to lure the main Roman army under Flaminius, into a pitched battle, by devastating under his very own eye the area Flaminius had been sent to protect in the Battle of Lake Trasimene
  • 247

    born

    Hannibal was born in 247

  • punic war starts

    Punic War starts in 218 with Hannibal as the Cartheginian general

  • hannibal and antochus's refuse

    In 195 B.C. Hannibal found refuge with the Seleucid king, Antiochus III, at Ephesus. Antiochus was persuaded by Hannibal to make an attack on Roman-held Greece

  • lost battles

    Hannibal, in charge of the fleet, was defeated, and Antiochus lost battles at Thermopylae (191)and Magnesia (190 or 189).

  • death

    Hannibal committed suicide by taking poison in 183 B.C.