As mentioned before‚ Hannibal crossed the Alps and Apennines to his great difficulty and bereavement. Not only did this journey cost him most of his elephants‚ but he also lost a large portion of his soldiers. Crossing the mountain ranges resulted in the loss of approximately 13‚333 men‚ which makes up a third of the forty-thousand men that he originally had. It is important to note‚ though‚ that this was the best case scenario for Hannibal. Had he decided to bring heavy siege equipment that he needed
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world‚ it had a lot of land to gain and a lot of wars to fight. The largest‚ and probably most important wars‚ was called the Punic Wars‚ which was fought between Rome and Carthage. There was a series of three wars‚ lasting between 264 BCE until 146 BCE. The motives of these wars are complex‚ but essentially each city-state was determined to conquer the other in an attempt to gain territory for trade and economic expansion. Prior to the first war‚ Rome and Carthage signed peace treaties in the
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October 2014 Critical Thinking Questions Chapter 5 1. Throughout the course of the Roman Republic‚ they were threatened by many different countries around them. They created a mighty military that crushed the Latin states. After that‚ they waged a war against the Samnites‚ and were victorious. They had a significant portion of Italy as a result‚ and came into direct contact with the Greeks. The Roman’s culture was greatly affected by the Greeks (such as adapting gods). Later on‚ the Romans crushed
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legendary exploits. Carthage occupied modern day northern Africa to the south and was the undisputed master of the seas. As both empires strived to expand their territories‚ they were eventually to engage each other in a series of three wars. These three wars spanned from the occupation of Messina in 264 B.C.E. until the burning of Carthage in 146 B.C.E. 1 This paper will discuss the history of events leading to the battle of Mylae‚ examine the battle
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Этика использования силы The USSR has inherited a large area and multinational structure of the Russian Empire. In 1917- 1921 Finland and Poland have received their independency‚ as well as Lithuania‚ Latvia‚ Estonia and Tuva. Some territories were annexed to the USSR‚ such as West Ukraine and West Belorussia‚ Baltics‚ Bessarabia and North Bukovina‚ the Tuvan People`s Republic‚ Transcarpathian region . The collapse of the USSR occurred due to the processes of system disintegration‚ which were happening
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The Causes of the Boer War‚ 1877-1899 Introduction: The Anglo Boer war is a topic that has been of particular interest to historians‚ both locally and internationally. As a war that the British had intended to be swift and concise it dragged on giving the British “no end of a lesson” (Pakenham‚ 1993:9) and would prove to be their most costly colonial enterprise in the history of British imperialism whose costs were only to be eclipsed by the great war of 1914. Of no less importance or significance
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Naval warfare was considered a second thought to most ancient Romans. It never carried the same prestige as that of a legionary. Before the First Punic War the Roman navy consisted mainly of allied ships and a few Roman ships that had crews that were very inexperienced. When entering the First Punic War they realized they needed to develop a navy to match the superior Carthaginian fleet. The fleet that the Romans had before the war would never withstand any naval battles. In building their navy‚
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Anglo-Boer War As the name indicates‚ the Anglo-Boer War was fought between British and the Boers. The war broke out on 11 October 1899 and ended on 31 May 1902. To the British it was a war mainly fought to begin their rule in South Africa‚ while to the Boer it was a defensive war. The Anglo-Boer War began with British territory being invaded by the Boers at four points: in the east into Natal‚ in the north-west of the Transvaal towards Mafikeng‚ in the south-west towards Kimberley‚ and across
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“It Was Milner’s war. The men on the spot dragged a reluctant cabinet into a confrontation they wished to avoid.” In the context of the period 1880-1910‚ how far do you agree with this view of the causes of the Boer war? The 4th Earl of Carnarvon‚ British secretary of state for the colonies under Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli wanted to form a confederation of all the British colonies‚ independent Boer Republics and independent African groups in South Africa under British control
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The recent Civil War in Congo has been a bloody flight‚ causing more then 3.3 million deaths in just 4 short years.1 Various rebel and ethnic groups have have been involved in the violence‚ fighting over Congo ’s rich natural resources or engaged in a bitter ethnic war. With so many opposing factions‚ it has made reaching a solution difficult. While a rough peace treaty has been established‚ sporadic fighting pops up in the country everyday. The people of Congo are being pushed farther into
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