Hannibal ante portas (ENG)
montaigne
I love history. According to some people history repeats itself. Maybe in the crucial moments the historical personalities are following the same unexplainable logic.
Have a look at Hannibal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal
The biggest military genious, a remarkable strategist, a statesman, who loved his people and his country more than anything else. He was the one, who decided to conquer Rome.
He needed tanks, so he transported by ships elephants accross the Bering Strait (I mean the Giblaltar) and then crossed the Rocky Mountains (I mean the Alps), forged alliance with the French (I mean the Gauls) and then headed toward Rome.
The Romans have tried to stop him at Ticinus River, than at Trebia River, and than followed two legendary battles at Trasimene Lake and at Cannae. In these four battles Rome lost an unbelievable amount of soldiers, estimated today to be as much as 150.000.
After the Cannae Battle the road was open to Rome. From this point the story starts to get a bit confused. According to some historians a local war between Greeks and Makedonians made him stop, according to others Hannibal just got scared in front of the opportunity but there are also speculations, that his generals and allies started to dispute over the pludner. Nobody knows the real reason why Hannibal decided to bypass Rome.
During these days the citizens of Rome were shouting in their desperacy: "Hannibal ante portas = Hannibal in front of our gates."
History did not give him a second chance. 14 years later at Zama Rome won against Carthago. Rome demolished the Carthagian walls, plundered the city, destroyed the fleet and slained the population. Hannibal was one of the few ones to escape, butRomans chased him till the end of his life. He has been poisoned 20 year later.
NOTE: Any resemblance between this short story and a Peace contract between PEACE and USA is not deliberate, just unavoidable.
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If You lost a chance there is no other.
There is one more important fact when Hannibal was in Rome (Italy), Romans didnt surrender they just refused to fight. Romans couldn't defeat him in Italy so they sent army to Cartage and few years later Cartage had to call Hannibal to return and fight off Romans and there he lost. Hmm what if they refuse to surrender ...
zelenkoo neprijatelja lovis u njegovoj kuci a ne da se branis u svojoj... to su Rimljani i uradili... da smo mi pametni pa da sravnimo svu bagru oko nas...
True montaigne, true... I really don't see why they signed peace with USA because we'll have to fight them even now, over mpps, this agreement weakend PEACE on the Spanish and potentional Greek front...
Great newspapers...
I love history to...
The worst of this war is that eSerbia won't get nothing!
Zeljko Cirovic:
Well, Hungary may get 200 gold for a pointless region and 300 for a HIGH region.
I just made a public offer saying that I am ready to pay 301 Gold for Kansas. 🙂
fine artice montaigne
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U're all wrong...
Hannibal went back cause his wife was cheating on him with an Elephant. He couldn't ignore that so he went to kill her with unique weapon "Baseball Bat Sword Dagger" which was given to him by Ceasar's wife... oO
Anyway, singing peace with USA is a rly strange desicion. Time will tell us is it wrong or right. This world war could be nothing more but demonstration of the PEACE power.
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slay je nepravilan glagol 🙂 nema slained, samo slain
Montaigne,you might like history,and I don t want to disappoint you,but you don t know it well🙂
First thing about Hannibal's fate after Zama,but that s one thing-the bigger problem about peace conditions after the war.
Carthago was never ruined,and population was not slained after that as well,and even lost his empire ,remained a strong and nice city,so Rome had to siege and destroy later, between Kr e 149 and 146,in the third Punnic war.
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Evo ti bambi profesore.
I think that's peace with America wrong move. Victory was near!
Pointless war, I'm very disappointed... No more comments...
BIG, BIG VOTE!
I will pay 301 gold for sweet home Alabama. 🙂
Sorry 201. cheap! 🙂
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this is the draft of the peace treaty
After the battle of Zama Rome made peace with Carthage but in the third punnic war Rome finally destroyed Carthage.Also Hannibal wasnt poisoned.When he heard that Romans were on his way to kill him he took poison himself ending his life.
well if this peace treaty passes ,what would serbia get?Nothing?I mean this treaty is bad for those ereps above formentioned even.
Did PEACE accept this??? Unbelivable!
Uros:
Mea Culpa, I made some Hollywoodian shortcut of 70 years from the second to the third punic war for the story to look more consistent.
About Hannibal's death I read 2 versions and I did not know which to trust: he either poisoned himself or his servants poisoned him for money.
Radovan Knelcevic:
The national congresses has to vote it...but in case they do not vote it, serious damages needs to be paid.
Canada's future is not a matter of discussion.
Another issue is, that only 5 PEACE countries were involced in the talks: HUN, IND, RUS, FRA, POR.
UK and Iran both left out since they were only involced in the war in Canada.
Brasil left out, although they did lot of blocking attacks against Spain.
Serbia and other unsignificant countries also have been left out.
I have to call this a SHAMELESS deal.
@montaigne
I do not understand why would Hungary for excample have to pay 500 gold if its congress doesn't accept this offer.
This is just an offer. Right. Or is it a result of negotiations?
This is a brilliant PEACE contract! My congrats to anyone who helped make it! PEACE wins major whatever happens! USA congress must really lose their minds to sign this!!!! Hope they dont!!!
@Babouras
Irony!!
Babouras:
Yes, my Greek friend. Sure, it is brilliant. Now we can concentrate on European battlefields.
In the Hungarian media I rose the question:
-Is this stupidity?
-Is this betrial?
-Is this corruption?
The most frequent asnwers was: CORRUPTION
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With this contract Serbia won't even have satisfaction of participating in American destruction 🙁 Not to mention anything else...