The Most Undefeated Loser in Military History | VeritasChron

He won every single battle he ever fought on Italian soil. And then somehow lost the entire war. Here's the full story of Hannibal Barca. Hannibal Barca is arguably the greatest military mind in human history — his tactics at Cannae are still taught at West Point today. And yet he died alone, in exile, swallowing poison from a ring he'd kept on his finger just in case. So what actually went wrong? In this video we break down the full story — from a nine-year-old swearing an oath of eternal hatred, to crossing the Alps in winter with war elephants, to the most perfectly executed battle in ancient history, to fifteen years of winning fights that changed absolutely nothing. Hero or failed villain? You decide. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕐 CHAPTERS 00:00 — The Hook: He Won Everything 01:30 — Rome vs Carthage: The Original Grudge Match 03:00 — The Nine-Year-Old Who Swore an Oath 04:15 — The Plan That Made Zero Sense (And Worked) 05:30 — Trebia and Trasimene: The Warm-Up Acts 07:00 — Cannae: The Greatest Battle Ever Fought 09:30 — Why Didn't He March on Rome? 11:00 — The Delayer: Fabius Maximus Does Nothing 12:30 — Fifteen Years of Winning Pointless Battles 14:00 — Scipio's Counter-Move 15:30 — Zama: The Only Battle That Mattered 17:00 — The Exile, the Ring, and the End 18:30 — Hero or Villain? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If you made it this far you probably enjoyed it — subscribing takes one click and genuinely helps the channel more than you'd think. New history videos every [upload schedule]. See you in the next one.