More seriously, Hannibal’s failure to use his victories comes from a similar strategic miscalculation of the same sort the Confederacy in the US Civil War made against the Union. There was a continual hope that just one more victory in the field would finally sap the enemy’s will to resist and let loose a torrent of their former allies swapping sides.
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More seriously, Hannibal’s failure to use his victories comes from a similar strategic miscalculation of the same sort the Confederacy in the US Civil War made against the Union. There was a continual hope that just one more victory in the field would finally sap the enemy’s will to resist and let loose a torrent of their former allies swapping sides.