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258 man of his race and his time, perhaps the mightiest military genius of any race and of any time."

Hannibal's Passage of the Alps.—The Carthaginian empire was now stirred with preparations for the impending struggle.

Hannibal was the life and soul of every movement. His bold plan was to cross the Pyrenees and the Alps and descend upon Rome from the north.