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 confinehimself very strictly, even in the most minute details which herecords, to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded uponhistory, but history itself, without any embellishment or anydeviations from the strict truth, so far as it can now be discoveredby an attentive examination of the annals written at the time when theevents themselves occurred. In writing the narratives, the author hasendeavored to avail himself of the best sources of information whichthis country affords; and though, of course, there must be in thesevolumes, as in all historical narratives, more or less of imperfectionand error, there is no intentional embellishment. Nothing is stated,not even the most minute and apparently imaginary details, withoutwhat was deemed good historical authority. The readers, therefore, mayrely upon the record as the truth, and nothing but the truth, so faras an honest purpose and a careful examination have been effectual inascertaining it.

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