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14th April 1952

Pray when do you go out of town

Plate 290 from chapter 80 of Gleanings of natural history

Specimen of argonaut collected by John Cranch (1758-1816)

1:12 scale

Hannibal and his war elephants crossing the Alps mb-height 2212 14th April 1952Hannibal and his war elephants crossing the Alps, 218 BC (19th century). During the Second Punic War, the Carthaginian general Hannibal led his army, including elephants, across the Alps into northern Italy to confront the Roman army. He defeated the Romans in three battles, the Trebia (218 BC), Lake Trasimene (217 BC) and most decisively at Cannae (216 BC).

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