Excerpt from Hannibal Crosses the Alps That brought me letters from Members of the Alpine Club and from a former President who is a champion of the Isere route.
Excerpt from The Alps of Hannibal, Vol. 1 of 2 I left aix on the 17th September with renewed impulse to a favourite theme, preposing for my daughter and myseif
When he left his Spanish base one spring day in 218 B.C. with his 100,000-man army of mercenaries, officers, and elephants, Hannibal was launching not just the