Sirius
Sirius The route to reach Rome from Carthage: start on Hispania and cross the Pyrenees and Alps. It doesn't matter what test he have to face. In his heart he keeps his father always present, Amilcar, whom he had promised to destroy Rome. Anibal presides the march over an enormous elephant, Sirius. Man and elephant come to create an image so powerful that each of the men in his army would follow him to his death. Some believe that Anibal and Sirius were united by some supernatural spell. May 218 B.C. The army departs from Quart Hadast or Cartago Nova, in Hispania. In August it crosses the Pyrenees and in September the Rhone River. In October he leave the Alps behind. With a number of troops quite inferior to the beginning he takes the city of Turin without encountering resistance. In November he confronts Publio Cornelio Escipión in Ticino... and the story continues. When he retreats, after 16 years in Roman lands, Sirius, the only elephant that manages to reach the gat...