Hannibal

Oil on Canvas - 36" X 48"

"CFQ"

A Brief History of Hannibal follows the picture.

Hannibal was a Phoenician Carthaginian general.  He is considered one of the great military leaders of antiquity, who commanded the Carthaginian forces against Rome in the Second Punic War (218-201 BC). The Phoenicians or Punic (Phoenicians of the Western Mediterranean) and Hannibal were Semitic according to world history books).  Most authors say that Semitic means neither white nor black, but we in America are Semitic and classified as Black.

Hannibal spent the winter of 219-218 at Cartagena in active preparations for carrying the war into Italy. Leaving his brother Hasdrubal in command of a considerable army for the defense of Spain and North Africa.  He crossed the Ebro in April or May of 218 and marched into the Pyrenees (the Romans, shortly before they heard of this, decided on war).  His army consisted, according to Polybius, of 90,000 infantry, 12,000 cavalry and a number of elephants--met with stiff resistance from the Pyrenean tribes.

Note:  I have never known of a White army to use elephants.  In antiquity Africans spread throughout India and the Oceanic Islands.