Blogs about: Great Generals
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Caesar's Lost Weekend with Cleopatra
Huckleberry Finn tries to understand Tom Sawyer. “If somebody offers you a cake and a puzzle,” he says, “most boys will choose the cake. Tom always chose the puzzle. He was just made that way.” So wa… more →
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Sertorius Was the Roman Hannibal
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100swallows wrote 2 months ago: One morning a hunter brought a snow-white fawn into camp and presented it to Sertorius. Sertorius sm … more →
Hannibal's Famous Vow
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100swallows wrote 3 months ago: Hamilcar Barca, Hannibal’s father, went to check in with the priests at the temple just before … more →
Something Spooky about Rome?
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100swallows wrote 1 year ago: Erika wrote: Pretty impressive, a great general [Hannibal] was. What puzzles me most is why these ex … more →
Hannibal's Ingenious Trick
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100swallows wrote 1 year ago: Everyone knows that Hannibal led an army with elephants over the Alps to attack Rome. That was one o … more →
Caesar's Lost Weekend with Cleopatra
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100swallows wrote 7 months ago: Huckleberry Finn tries to understand Tom Sawyer. “If somebody offers you a cake and a puzzle,” he s … more →
Your Time to Be a Hero 2
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100swallows wrote 11 months ago: “I can’t sleep,” Xenophon said to the officers, “and I know you can’t either.” Their gen … more →
Xenophon's Nightmare
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100swallows wrote 11 months ago: “So—is this the end?” Xenophon asked himself. “You asked for it and now you got it.” He was lying in … more →
Scipio Takes Command (Part 3)
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100swallows wrote 1 year ago: How could the Roman Assembly give the command of an army to a boy of twenty-seven (Livy says twenty- … more →
Scipio Takes Command (Part 2)
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100swallows wrote 1 year ago: The Carthaginian commander of New Carthage, Mago by name, had only a thousand soldiers to defend the … more →
Scipio Takes Command (Part 1)
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100swallows wrote 1 year ago: Scipio was the man who finally beat Hannibal on the battlefield. He was only twenty-seven when the R … more →
