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Alps (Virginia, United States) (search for this): book 3, chapter 50
Hannibal Harassed By the Natives
Having in ten days' march accomplished a distance
The ascent.
of eight hundred stades along the river bank,
Hannibal began the ascent of the Alps,I have no intention of rediscussing the famous question of the pass by
which Hannibal crossed the Alps. The reader will find an admirably clear
statement of the various views entertained, and the latest arguments advanced
in favour of each, in the notes to Mr. W. T. Arnold's edition of Dr. Arnold's
History of the SeconAlps. The reader will find an admirably clear
statement of the various views entertained, and the latest arguments advanced
in favour of each, in the notes to Mr. W. T. Arnold's edition of Dr. Arnold's
History of the Second Punic War, pp. 362-373. and
immediately found himself involved in the most serious
dangers. For as long as the Carthaginians were on the
plains, the various chiefs of the Allobroges refrained from
attacking them from fear of their cavalry, as well as of the
Gauls who were escorting them. But when these last departed
back again to their own lands, and Hannibal began to enter the
mountainous region, the chiefs of the Allobroges collected
large numbers of their tribe and occupied the points of va