THE YOUNG CARTHAGINIAN
A STORY OF THE TIMES OF HANNIBAL,
By G. A. Henty
CONTENTS
PREFACE.
CHAPTER I. THE CAMP IN THE DESERT
CHAPTER II. A NIGHT ATTACK
CHAPTER III. CARTHAGE
CHAPTER IV. A POPULAR RISING
CHAPTER V. THE CONSPIRACY
CHAPTER VI. A CAMPAIGN IN SPAIN
CHAPTER VII. A WOLF HUNT
CHAPTER VIII. A PLOT FRUSTRATED
CHAPTER IX. THE SIEGE OF SAGUNTUM
CHAPTER X. BESET
CHAPTER XI. THE PASSAGE OF THE RHONE
CHAPTER XII. AMONG THE PASSES
CHAPTER XIII. THE BATTLE OF THE TREBIA
CHAPTER XIV. THE BATTLE OF LAKE TRASIMENE
CHAPTER XV. A MOUNTAIN TRIBE
CHAPTER XVI. IN THE DUNGEONS OF CARTHAGE
CHAPTER XVII. THE ESCAPE
CHAPTER XVIII. CANNAE
CHAPTER XIX. IN THE MINES
CHAPTER XX. THE SARDINIAN FORESTS
CHAPTER XXI. THE GAULISH SLAVE
CHAPTER XXII. THE LION
PREFACE.
MY DEAR LADS,
When I was a boy at school, if I remember rightly, our sympathies were generally with the Carthaginians as against the Romans. Why they were so, except that one generally sympathizes with the unfortunate, I do not quite know; certainly we had but a hazy idea as to the merits of the struggle and knew but little of its events, for the Latin and Greek authors, which serve as the ordinary textbooks in schools, do not treat of the Punic wars. That it was a struggle for empire at first, and latterly one for existence on the part of Carthage, that Hannibal was a great and skilful general, that he defeated the Romans at Trebia, Lake Trasimenus, and Cannae, and all but took Rome, and that the Romans behaved with bad faith and great cruelty at the capture of Carthage, represents, I think, pretty nearly the sum total of our knowledge.
I am sure I should have liked to know a great deal more about this struggle for the empire of the world, and as I think that most of you would also like to do so, I have chosen this subject for my story. Fortunately there is no lack of authentic material from which to glean