Hannibal Crosses the Alps

Hannibal Crosses the Alps

I have heard this question discussed ever since I was a child, but have never yet written anything about it except in my Small Talk at Wreyland. In the First Series, page 75, I was talking about travelling on the Continent, and I said: Plenty of people went to Switzerland at the time when I first went1869far more than when my father went there thirty years before, but nothing like the crowds that go there now. They kept more to peaks and passes then; and they were always talking of Hannibals passage of the Alps. Junius was talked out: Tichborne and Dreyfus were yet to come; and Hannibal filled the gap. I used to hear them at home as well as there; and they all had their pet routes for HannibalCol dArgentire, Mont Genvre, Mont Cenis, Little Mont Cenis, Little St Bernard and Great St Bernard, and even Simplon and St Gothard. In 1871 I went looking for traces of the vinegar on the Great St Bernard. My father upheld the Cenis routes as the only passes from which you can look down upon the plains of Italy. I doubt if Hannibal did look down. I think he may have shown his men their line of march upon a map, just as Aristagoras used a map to show the Spartans their line of march 282 years earlier. vi I wrote Anaxagoras by mistake for Aristagoras, and passed it in the proofs; and it was printed in the first impression of the First Series, though corrected in the second impression. I mentioned my mistake in the Second Series, page 102, and this and other instances led me on to say: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 61406
Author: Torr, Cecil
Release Date: Feb 14, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English