From the Punic Wars (264–146 b.c.) and the Hundred ... The same sort of resolution was true of the Second World War, in which the victorious Allies agreed that they should and could destroy ...

During the Second Punic War, which lasted from 218 to 201 B.C., the Carthaginian general Hannibal led his army of 100,000 troops across the Alps. Included in his ranks were 40 war elephants ...