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placeAncient city in Spain, involved in the conflict between Hannibal and Rome, and the site of Hannibal's crossing into Italy.
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569. Hannibal: Elephants Cross the Alps (Part 2)
But before we do that, Tom, remind us where we got to last time. So we ended last time in 218 BC on a cliffhanger, because after years, months of gathering tension, Carthage and Rome are once again at war. And the trigger was this city in Spain called Saguntum, which Hannibal, as the commander of the Carthaginians in Spain, had taken and sacked, and the Romans had gone ballistic, hadn't they?