Hannibal of Carthage (The Father of Warfare and Military Strategy).

Hannibal of Carthage (Phonecia) was a Black General who was of Phonecian descent, but lived in North Africa in the Phonecian-built City-state of Carthage. Hannibal is credited in Eastern and Western thought as being the "Father of Warfare and Military Strategy". Due to racism and the global suppresssion of Black Greatness, the history of Hannibal has been re-written and painted "White". This type of Hate for Black Greatness has "Not" just happened with Hannibal, but we see it clear in the White portraits of Adam and Eve, Moses, The Biblical Israelites, The Egyptians, and even the Babylonians. This is why the acquisition of knowledge and truth is imperative, because once a person is empowered by knowledge it will illuminate their "path". It's said that knowledge is power, it then follows that those who are Not in possesion of it, render themselves "Powerless"....!!!

Hannibal was a Military General and tactician. His father Hannibal Barca was the leading Carthaginian commander during the first "Punic Wars". Hannibal lived during a period of tension between Rome and the darker people who ruled the Mediterrranean. Carthage had captured and subdued Sicily, known then as "Sardenia". Hannibal and his soldiers mixed with the inhabitants of Sicily, which is why to this day Italians (Romans) ridicule Sicilians for having a darker complexion because of their ancient history of mixed marriages and relationships with the "Black" Carthaginians.

One of Hannibals most celebrated military achievements was during the second punic war when Hannibal succeeded in doing the impossible. For years the Romans enjoyed geographical freedom because the way in which Rome is cituated strategically, they are protected on all sides, the only weak point being the mountaineous Alps, which was impossible to cross with an army. Hannibal however, was a military genius. Not only did he cross the Alps with a stunning amount of soldiers and arms, but he did so on elephants, who by the way were never seen by Romans. So when this "Black General did the impossible by crossing the Alps, Rome was petrified, but the crossing of the Alps was small in comparison to the fear imposed on the Romans when they encountered elephants for the very fist time and in war at that...!!!

During his invasion of Italy, he defeated the Romans in a series of battles. He won over several Roman allies and maintained an army in Italy for 17 years, never personally losing on the battle field while in Italy. But soon there-after a Roman counter-invasion of North Africa forced him to return to Carthage, where he was decisively defeated by Scipio Africanus, the man who the continent of Africa was named after. This defeat caused Hannibal to be exiled. He stayed in a couple of allied terrotories, where he became a military advisor to the Selucid court against Rome. But when Rome defeated the Selucid empire, Hannibal soon found himself in exile once again.

Hannibal would later be considered by historians as one of the greatest Military Generals of antiquity. Military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge once famously called Hannibal the "Father of Military Strategy", because his greatest enemy, Rome, later came to adapt elements of his military tactics in it's own strategic arsenal. Hannibal was a renown Military Genius and Zion Train Entertainment celebrates and salutes him for Black history month.