It's the Entrance on History Hit.

I'm Tristan Hughes, your host and in today's podcast where we are continuing the story

of Hannibal Barker vs Rome with Dr. Louis Rawlings from the University of Cardiff.

Last week we covered Hannibal's, well his campaign, down to the Battle of Lake Trasamine

and his victory against the Romans, this great ambush of Hannibal Barker in mid-2017 BC.

And today we're going to be covering the aftermath.

How the Romans reacted to this second defeat, the employment of the Fabian strategy and

what Hannibal, what he did next to.

We're going to be going all the way down to just before Hannibal's next big battle against

the Romans at the Battle of Canne.

And that is the great climax, the third and final episode with Dr. Louis Rawlings, which

will be coming out in another week or so's time.

So stay tuned for that one too.

But in the meantime, enjoy this second of our three episodes with Louis all about Hannibal

vs Rome and without further ado, here's Louis.

Louis, you're back on the podcast again, we can't get rid of you because obviously this

is a big topic and we needed you on.

So it's great to have you back.

And it's great to continue talking about this topic because it's absolutely fascinating

to me, it's been one of my lifelong passions to understand this campaign.

And you're right to point out, just continue talking because we are recording both these

podcast episodes, we just finished recording Trasamine and now we're going on as the big

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