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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Given a medals During the Second Punic War Hannibal used the strategy of?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

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OpenStudy (anonymous):

... Hannibal Barca's tactical successes and strategic failures during the Second Punic War. ... The Second Punic War began in 218 B.C under the auspices of the talented ... Hannibal's war had to be confined to land and it was here that he showed his ... The Romans used a very simple system of shock combat and their short ... does that help........

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Rome had an inexhaustible supply of manpower from its Italian allies. King Pyrrhus of Epirus 50 years earlier had found this out when he twice defeated them with heavy loss to his own army, which he could not replace, and gave up. Hannibal learnt from this and made his main objective to detach as many allies as he could from the Roman side to his own. He had sufficient success in this to keep going in Italy for a decade and a half, but the most important allies stayed with Rome. Rome's eventual counter-strategy was to land in North Africa and threaten Carthage, so Hannibal and his army were recalled to defend their city.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

At the Battle of Cannae he hid troops behind the Roman's lines and then attacked them from behind. His favourite trick was to encircle his enemy by pretending to retreat. One thing about Hannibal is he constantly changed his strategies when the enemy worked them out. He also tried to convince the local Latins to join his fight against the Romans. Didn't work very well

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