Why Did an Army of Elephants Cross the Alps?
The great general, Hannibal, was born in 247 B.C. in Carthage, an ancient city in North Africa that had been founded centuries earlier by traders from the Near East. At the age of 25, Hannibal became the leader of the Carthaginian army in Spain, just across the Mediterranean from Carthage. When Hannibal led his army into the ter