Rome began to organize his army and his fleet of ships. Public prayers were made to the gods that they were conducive to the conflict and grant them victory in the war they undertook. Once more - and not the last - was intended to make the divine human accomplice of violence. Each of the consuls took command of an army. Tiberius Sempronius, with 160 quinqueremes, left for Sicily and occupied the island of Malta, bases from where they coordinate the assault on the African coast - much like the current NATO exercises against Libya in his speech. Scipio should land in Spain. Thus, the iron romanaapresaría to Carthage on both sides. However, when I was about to leave the Second Army, came the news that the Gauls of northern Italy had rebelled and had no choice Scipio to go to appease them, delaying their departure.
Meanwhile, no one had thought of Hannibal, who had just crossed the Ebro with an army of 90,000 infantry, 12,000 cavalry and 35 elephants, with a particular destination, and fall across the Alps on Italy, surprising the Romans from behind. His plan was perfectly logical given the naval inferiority of Carthage, the war could succeed only by land.
Hannibal had the surprise factor and also had the assurance that the Gauls against the Romans would help without thinking twice. Moreover, it was believed that the league italics, headed by Rome, would be dissolved as soon as he put the foot in the land of Italy. More than that, he was convinced it would be possible to form a grand coalition against Rome Mediterranean, where some powerful monarchs willingly enter Greece.
Thus, from the Ebro, Hannibal made his way to the Pyrenees trying to avoid the coast, where the Greek colonies were able to mobilize against him and the neighboring tribes to host their ports at the Roman fleet. Therefore, submitting on his way to Ilergetes, bergistanos, Ausetani, andosinos and Airen, who resisted, crossed the Pyrenees and entered into Gaul by the current step of Perthus.
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