>loses half his army crossing the Alps, something literally

>it's a select area around street signs episode

wtf is this shit fuck you Hiro

>>1893125
>>somehow goes down in history as 'the guy who crossed the Alps
Actually, he became famous because of muh elephants crossing the Alps.

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>land in america, dwpite wanting to find a shorter route to India, something natives and Scandinavian Vikings have done throughout history without fanfare
>somehow goes down in history as 'the guy who discovered america' for this
>could have just rebuilt the Suez canal

>>1893132
But most if not all of his elephants died.

>>1893143
Rebuilt?

He got famous for surviving on Roman soils for like 20 years just looting shit and being ass cancer for the Romans.

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>>1893125
>you can't cross these alps
>im going to cross these alps
>he crossed those alps!

Romans deserved losing tens of thousands to this semitic autist.

>>1893125
It's made more impressive because they were hostile territories for Carthage and you had a bunch of Africans crossing snowy mountains with Indian elephants.

Scipio Africanus is basically the Duke of Wellington right?

>>1893125
He went the long way because the Romans were guarding the southern area.

Hannibal didn't want to be spotted I presume

Goal of crossing the Alps was to catch the Romans with their pants down in their own backyard

Fuck I've finished this chapter and I feel bad for slating him now

Dude got messed around

>>1893127
Recatcha is truly becoming more and more cancerous
First it was 3 numbers easily typed, then it became shitty pics to select that work 1 out of 3 times whn done right, and now that

>>1893180
Wewuzians are buttdevasted by the fact the concept of making a canal there was invented by France and Britain so their headcanon is that Ancient Egypt had one

>>1893341
They did, Jospeh built one when he became assisant of the pharaoh for interepreting his dream, if I remember correctly

>>1893125
>could have just gone by the sea route anyway
Top kek, his reinforcements tried, Rome absolutely rekt their fleet.

>>1893252
>Goal of crossing the Alps was to catch the Romans with their pants down in their own backyard
Also make all gallic tribes on his route rise up against Rome and join his army.

>>1893349
The only ancient canals were between the Nile and the red sea, not between the med and the red sea directly. And they were built at the earliest during Darius the great's reign.

Friendly reminder that Alexander successfully crossed the Hindu Kush with few loses

>>1893568
If the reinforcements had arrived, Hannibal would've been an unstoppable force in the Italian peninsula. Funny how one interrupted march changed everything. I believe it was his brother leading that army, which destroyed morale once the Romans tossed his head to Hannibal.

>>1893618
Friendly reminder that Hannibal considered himself less than Alexander.

>>1893143
>im sure the muslims will end their monopoly on the east by allowing us passage through their canals

Youre just as stupid as colombus

>>1893643
>Funny how one interrupted march changed everything.
Not really. There were many attempts to send reinforcements, and they all failed. A couple even managed to reach Italy (Hasdrubal, the beheaded general you mention, was defeated in central Italy, and Mago in Liguria), but the romans prevented Hannibal from ever joining up with them. This is an abject strategic failure on Hannibal's part, he got literally outmaneuvered into irrelevance from Cannae onward.
It's pretty silly to say this detail changed everything, because it's a pretty fucking big and important detail. That's like saying had Hannibal be a bad battlefield commander, everything would have been different.

>>1893618
>didn't have elefuns

>>1893243
No otherwise u would order beef africanus instead of beef wellington.

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>>1893213
you forgot the most important wiki screenshot

>>1893125
He not last who can be claimed as 'the guy who crossed the Alps'

>>1893180
original one was destroyed by korean fifth yuggun

>>1893618
Friendly reminder that the Romans couldn't conquer in 500 years what Alexander conquered in 5

Fucking based

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>demand Carthage to give up their noble children
>they actually do, fucking morans
>demand to give up all their weapons
>holy fuck, these clowns actually did, fucking kek
>kill everyone at night and raze the city
Why were romans so based

>>1893125
>he could have have just transported his 100.000 men army to Italy by sea.

Lel no. Rome had had naval superiority since the conclusion of the first Punic war.

>>1894027
Friendly remainder that the Roman empire lasted 1480 years, Alexander's empire 13.

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>>1893349
>the bible actually happened

Anon...

>>1894408
Alexander's Empire lasted 2000, as he went by the same legacy as Cyrus did to Deioces, and Deoices to Ashur and so on to Sargon and tried to build to it, which is no different than german and greek niggers going by Rome's legacy.

>>1894691
If you make that argument, then Alexander didn't make any empire at all, he just took over an existing one and set up a dynasty that lasted a mere 13 years. That's far more pathetic, you really shouldn't have mentioned it.

>>1894055
Don't forget that Carthage actually supplied ships and sailors for Rome's war with Macedon and the Seleukid empire. But credit is due the Cartheginians long and heroic defence of their city. They built a fleet overnight while fashioning bows and catapults from the womenfolk cutting their hair.