Trebia

Bobium (245) on account of the brook which flowed by it; another river in the neighborhood was called Trebia, on which Hannibal, spending a winter, suffered great losses of men, horses, and elephants.

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

Napoleon the First assigned to Hannibal the leading place among the great generals of the world, and the Trebia was his masterpiece.

The Young Carthaginian A Story of The Times of Hannibal 1867

In graphic, panoramic prose, Durham describes the battles, including the icy slaughter of the Trebia; the mist-shrouded battle along Lake Trasimene; the battle of Cannae, in which Hannibal's outnumbered force surrounded and decimated seventy thousand Romans in a single afternoon; and Zama, the hard slog that proved to be the decisive contest.

The Pride of Carthage: Summary and book reviews of The Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Durham. 2005

Upon the former engagement near Trebia, neither the general who wrote, nor the express who told the news, used straightforward and direct terms, nor related it otherwise than as a drawn battle, with equal loss on either side; but on this occasion, as soon as

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Italy, who, at his first entrance, having gained a great battle near the river Trebia, traversed all Tuscany with his victorious army, and, desolating the country round about, filled Rome itself with astonishment and terror.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

I have endured the crossing of the Alps, the tribal ambushes, the skirmish on the Ticinus, the battle of the Trebia, and the destruction of the legions by the mist-shrouded shore of Lake Trasimene.

Jacob's Ladder Mackay, Colin 2003

Hannibal then defeated the other consul at the Battle of the Trebia.

227 2001

At the battle of the Trebia, the Romans were foolishly allowed to fight fasting, whereas Hannibal's men had breakfasted at their leisure.

The Art of War 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi

But, though a young general, Hannibal was an old soldier when he led his army from the Ebro to the Trebia, as the avenging agent of his country's gods.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

The spring following the victory at the Trebia, Hannibal led his army, now recruited by many Gauls, across the Apennines, and moved southward.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers