Hannibal: A History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the Battle of Pydna, Volumen 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1891 - 682 páginas |
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Africa Alexander allied legions Alps Apennines Ariminum arms Arretium attack baggage barbarians Barca battle Beneventum Bernard booty camp campaign Campania captured Cartagena Carthage Carthaginian Carthaginian army cavalry centuries Chevelu cohort colonies column command consular army consuls crossed defeat defile elephants enemy enemy's Etruria Fabius fact fight Flaminius flank fleet foot force front Gallic Gauls Greeks Hamilcar Hannibal Hannibal's Hasdrubal hastati heavy horse infantry Insula intervals Isère Italy lance land legionaries light troops Lilybæum Little St Livy maniple manœuvres miles military mountains moved nations nibal Numidians pass passage phalanx Placentia plain Polybius probably Pyrrhus reached rear Regulus Rhone river road Roman army Roman legions Rome Roquemaure route Saguntum Scipio Second Punic Second Punic War Sempronius senate sent Sicily siege Spain Stradella sword Taurini thousand three hundred Ticinus tion Trasimene Trebia triarii tribes valley velites victory walls wars
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Página v - l'histoire de leur quatre-vingt-huit campagnes ; modelez-vous sur eux, — c'est le seul moyen de devenir grand capitaine et de surprendre le secret de l'art ; votre génie, ainsi éclairé, vous fera rejeter des maximes
Página 132 - the unconquered general of a vanquished nation, descended from the mountains which he had defended so long and delivered to the new masters of the island the fortresses which the Phoenicians had held in their uninterrupted possession for at least four hundred years.
Página 289 - it is to be ignorant and blind in the science of commanding armies to think that a general has anything more important to do than to apply himself to learning the inclinations and character of his
Página 148 - The policy of the Romans was always more remarkable for tenacity, cunning and consistency, than for grandeur of conception or power of rapid organization,
Página v - d'artillerie peuvent s'apprendre dans les traités ; — mais la connaissance de la grande tactique ne s'acquiert que par l'expérience et par l'étude de
Página 101 - who are not their equals, and they cannot, as we must allow, deceive themselves ; for their exercises are battles without bloodshed, and their battles bloody exercises.
Página 182 - the stream by cables from the land, fastened to some trees which grew on the bank, in order that they might not be forced away by the strength of the current. Having made this