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... conciliated the native independent Princes ; and he hoped thus not only to ensure a constant supply of good soldiers to recruit his armies , but , by gaining possession of 24 CAMPAIGNS OF HANNIBAL . -March into Italy and First Campaign.
... conciliated the native independent Princes ; and he hoped thus not only to ensure a constant supply of good soldiers to recruit his armies , but , by gaining possession of 24 CAMPAIGNS OF HANNIBAL . -March into Italy and First Campaign.
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sir Patrick Leonard MacDougall. recruit his armies , but , by gaining possession of the productive gold and silver mines of the south of the Peninsula , to obtain the means of paying them . Hamilcar was slain in battle in the year B.C. ...
sir Patrick Leonard MacDougall. recruit his armies , but , by gaining possession of the productive gold and silver mines of the south of the Peninsula , to obtain the means of paying them . Hamilcar was slain in battle in the year B.C. ...
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... possessed sufficient trans- port to ferry his whole army across the river . But he found the Gauls of the opposite shore assembled to oppose his passage , and his dispositions to effect it are well worthy of attention . He sent off a ...
... possessed sufficient trans- port to ferry his whole army across the river . But he found the Gauls of the opposite shore assembled to oppose his passage , and his dispositions to effect it are well worthy of attention . He sent off a ...
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... possessed several south of the Po , and on which they depended for their subsistence ; for , as it has been already remarked , they had no hold on the country excepting by their garrisons , and without these the Roman army might have ...
... possessed several south of the Po , and on which they depended for their subsistence ; for , as it has been already remarked , they had no hold on the country excepting by their garrisons , and without these the Roman army might have ...
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... possessed of some of the qualities which go to make up a great general ; particularly of that enlarged general view without which a man may be an excellent tactician , but can never become a great commander . It is probably one of the ...
... possessed of some of the qualities which go to make up a great general ; particularly of that enlarged general view without which a man may be an excellent tactician , but can never become a great commander . It is probably one of the ...
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