Hannibal Barca, Carthaginian General: «We Will Find a Way Through the Alps, and if It Does Not Exist, We Will Build It Ourselves»

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Aníbal Barca is one of the most important military figures of Antiquity and his name was forever linked to one of the most surprising feats of the Second Punic War, which was to cross the Alps with his army to reach Italy. Faced with a natural barrier that seemed impossible to overcome, the Carthaginian general would have summed up his determination with a phrase that has survived for centuries. «We will find a way through the Alps, and if it do…