15 Days of Hell: Hannibal's Suicide March Over the Alps | HomeBound Historian

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How do you move 37 war elephants over an 'impassable' wall of ice and rock?

You don't. It's a suicide mission.

In 218 BC, Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca was trapped. To defeat his nemesis, the Roman Republic, he couldn't sail the seas they controlled. He had to do the one thing Rome believed was completely impossible: attack them from the north, over the Alps.

This wasn't just a march. It was a 15-day survival thriller. A logistical nightmare where the main enemies were starvation, frostbite, sudden blizzards, and gravity itself.

Join us as we break down the insane challenge of feeding a 50,000-man army in a frozen wasteland, the terror of guerilla attacks on narrow goat tracks, and the heartbreaking cost to the men and animals who were pushed to their absolute limit.

This is the true story of the greatest gamble in military history.

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