Hannibal Barca

Hannibal Barca , private elephant owner in Tunisia

Barca was born * -247 dead -183 .

Hannibal (Punic: Hannibaal (çðéáòì), "Baal is my grace" or "Baal has given me grace"; 247 BC – ca. 183 BC), son of Hamilcar Barca, was a Carthaginian military commander and tactician, later also working in other professions, who is popularly credited as one of the most talented commanders in history. He lived during a period of tension in the Mediterranean, when Rome (then the Roman Republic) established its supremacy over other great powers such as Carthage, and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of Macedon, Syracuse, and the Seleucid empire. His most famous achievement was at the outbreak of the Second Punic War, when he marched an army, which included war elephants, from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy.

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