British Alpine Hannibal Expedition
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title:
British Alpine Hannibal Expedition
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The British Alpine Hannibal Expedition was an experimental archeology event that took place in 1959. British engineer John Hoyte led an expedition that tried to reenact aspects of Hannibal's legendary crossing of the Alps during the Second Punic War in 218 BCE. The group successfully took the female Asian elephant Jumbo, provided by a zoo in Turin, from France over the Col du Mont Cenis into Italy.
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1959 experiment carrying an Asian elephant across the Alps
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Alpine_Hannibal_Expedition
date created:
2010-10-16T21:34:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T22:49:24Z
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