PPT-The Trebia

December 218 BC Strategic Context In 218 BC Hannibal Barca negates Roman control of the seas by leading the Carthaginians through Spain to attack Roman territory igniting the Second Punic War Hannibal defeats one Roman army under Scipio Africanus at the Ticinus River while another under Tiberius Sempronius departs Sicily to combine forces The combined Roman army camps opposite the Carthaginian army across the Trebia River Hannibal sends his cavalry to provoke the impulsive Sempronius and succeeds the Romans wade across the frigid Trebia River to attack while the Carthaginians warm by the fire. The Battle of . Trebia. River. Hannibal as told by an officer:. He had long ago noticed a place between the two camps, flat indeed and treeless, but well adapted for an ambuscade, as it was traversed by a water-course with steep banks, densely overgrown with brambles and other thorny plants, and here he proposed to lay a . La gamme de thé MORPHEE vise toute générations recherchant le sommeil paisible tant désiré et non procuré par tout types de médicaments. Essentiellement composé de feuille de morphine, ce thé vous assurera d’un rétablissement digne d’un voyage sur . The 1. st. Punic War was fought over the control of the island of Sicily.. Carthage’s navy was utterly destroyed in the war. . In 241 B.C., a peace treaty was signed.. Why was the Roman victory at Sicily so important?.