Modern day tunisia is located right at the tip of north africa.It was originally called carthage.And was a trading post founded by the PHONECIANS after the Phonecians were defeated carthage was free.But rome was greedy they wanted the north african's under their control.Hannibal's father was also a general who passed down his dislike for the romans to his son hannibal.The carthaginians fought three wars with rome.Between 264B.C thru 146B.C.Including Hannibal's elephant mounted expedition across the alps in 218-202B.C A brilliant black man hannible was only 25 years old during these wars!
In the second Punic War (218 - 202 BC) Hannibal famously led his army and elephants over the Alps to attack the Romans on their own soil. For many years, he led his victorious army up and down what is known today as Italy. On every battlefield he defeated the Roman legions. Unable to stop Hannibal in Italy, the Romans took the fight to the Phoenician colonies in Spain, and captured all those cities. Eventually, Hannibal was lured to North Africa -- supposedly for peace negotiations -- where Roman troops were finally able to defeat him.
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