Elibron Classics. Replica of 1891 edition by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York. This is an illustrated edition. The edition comes with a PDF map available for download. Hannibal is often called the finest general the world has ever known. Setting out from Carthaginian-dominated Spain with a small army of select troops, he fought his way over the Pyrenees and crossed the Alps with elephants and a full baggage train. Theodore Dodge retraced this route from Carthage to Italy, paying particular attention to the famous crossing of the Alps, and wrote what remains unequalled as the most comprehensive and readable study of history’s greatest general.