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Hannibal, by Jacob Abbott
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Title: Hannibal Makers of History
Author: Jacob Abbott
Release Date: December 17, 2008 [EBook #27551]
Language: English
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Makers of History
Hannibal
BY JACOB ABBOTT
WITH ENGRAVINGS
NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1901
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.
Copyright, 1876, by JACOB ABBOTT.
PREFACE
The author of this series has made it his special object to confine himself very strictly, even in the most minute details which he records, to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded upon history, but history itself, without any embellishment or any deviations from the strict truth, so far as it can now be discovered by an attentive examination of the annals written at the time when the events themselves occurred. In writing the narratives, the author has endeavored to avail himself of the best sources of information which this country affords; and though, of cou