I am Hannibal, my full name is Hanniba'al Ben Hamilcar Barka(Mercy of Ba'al, son of the coronated lightning, I'm not making that shit up.). I am not dead as many of you think. It was all a trick! I cannot die until I destroy Rome. Right now I am hiding in Israel because they speak Hebrew, like me. In my younger years I lead a brave campaign against Rome. I had a massive army composed of Numidians, Carthaginians, Jews, Celts, Spaniards, and various Italian tribes. Unfortunately we lost, but I live on. Here's some nice things that were said about me:"As to the transcendent military genius of Hannibal there cannot be two opinions. The man who for fifteen years could hold his ground in a hostile country against several powerful armies and a succession of able generals must have been a commander and a tactician of supreme capacity. In the use of stratagems and ambuscades he certainly surpassed all other generals of antiquity. Wonderful as his achievements were, we must marvel the more when we take into account the grudging support he received from Carthage. As his veterans melted away, he had to organize fresh levies on the spot. We never hear of a mutiny in his army, composed though it was of Africans, Spaniards and Gauls. Again, all we know of him comes for the most part from hostile sources. The Romans feared and hated him so much that they could not do him justice. Livy speaks of his great qualities, but he adds that his vices were equally great, among which he singles out his more than Punic perfidy and an inhuman cruelty. For the first there would seem to be no further justification than that he was consummately skilful in the use of ambuscades. For the latter there is, we believe, no more ground than that at certain crises he acted in the general spirit of ancient warfare. Sometimes he contrasts most favorably with his enemy. No such brutality stains his name as that perpetrated by Claudius Nero on the vanquished Hasdrubal. Polybius merely says that he was accused of cruelty by the Romans and of avarice by the Carthaginians. He had indeed bitter enemies, and his life was one continuous struggle against destiny. For steadfastness of purpose, for organizing capacity and a mastery of military science he has perhaps never had an equal."Patton believed that he was a reincarnation of General Hannibal
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