00:00A hundred thousand soldiers ascending the treacherous Alps.
00:04This was the greatest ambush ever attempted by a military leader.
00:08Hannibal Barca, a Carthaginian general fueled by vengeance,
00:12led his men and war elephants through snow, ice and death.
00:17The mountains swallowed half his army,
00:19but in 218 BC, when he finally descended into Italy,
00:24Rome was caught with its pants down.
00:26Over the next few years, Hannibal humiliated the world's greatest military on its own soil.
00:32He struck such fear into Roman hearts that for generations,
00:37parents warned misbehaving children with Hannibal ad portus.
00:41Hannibal is at the gates.
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