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July 11th, 2018: The British Alpine Hannibal Expedition
Every school kid has heard about Hannibal crossing the alps with elephants. But since it was 2200 years ago and wasn’t written
about in any surviving documents except the description by the Greek Polybius 70 years later , and the Roman Livy 120 years after that, details are pretty scant. The biggest detail missing is which route, which pass did Hannibal travel. A bunch of people have been trying to figure that out and have established three viable routes and each has a number of experts firmly in that camp. They’re all still working on their theories, looking for evidence on the ground and in old literature about weather, flora and geologic changes. Quote:
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This has jogged my memory. I recalled an attempt by Ian Botham, former England cricketer, to recreate Hannibal's crossing of the Alps to raise funds for Leukaemia Research.
There's not a great deal online about the project which took place in 1988, but I've found a BBC archive article from 1999. Quote:
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Enough about crossing the Alps, how the hell did he get 'em across the Sahara and the Mediterranean?
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07-12-2018, 11:18 AM | #6 |
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Das Boat.
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Scouts. And they sat on hill and watched.
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