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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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-tion. Naturally the principal subject of these talks were the campaigns in whichthey had confronted each other, and in which Scipio had finally proved thevictor. One day as they sat thus together, the Roman asked Hannibal whomhe thought to be the greatest general. Alexander, was the prompt reply, because with a small body of menhe defeated immense armies and overran a great part of the world. Whom do you rank next. Pyrrhus, for he first taught the method of forming a camp to the bestadvantage. And whom do you place next to those ? asked Scipio. Myself, replied Hannibal. Scipio smiled and mildly inquired, Where, then, would you have placedyourself if you had conquered mef Above Alexander, was the bold answer of the Carthaginian; abovePyrrhus and above all other generals. Rome steadily advanced her dominion. While the second Punic War wasgoing on. King Philippus, of Macedon, as related in our history of Greece, madea treaty with Hannibal, which embroiled him with Rome. She sent an army
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Rome—Destruction of Carthage 341 against Philip, and in the hostilities that followed some of the Greek statessided with Rome and some with Macedon. It has been shown that in the battleof Cynocephal^, fought in Thessaly, in B.C. 197, the power of Macedon wasbroken and Philip was forced to become a dependent ally of Rome. In b.c.168 the Macedonians were utterly crushed at Pydna, and in B.C. 146 Corinthwas taken and burned. All resistance to the triumphant Romans ceased, andGreece became the Roman province of Achaia. The third Punic War began in B.C. 149 and was waged in brutal wantonnessby Rome. Carthage had become her dependent ally, though left free in itsinternal government; but there was a party in Rome bent on humiliating it tothe very dust. The leader was Porcius Cato, the censor, and master of theRoman Senate. He became such a monomaniac that every speech he made,no matter to what he referred, closed with the impressive exclamation, Dclendctest Carthago !— Carthage must be d

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