But Why Didn't Hannibal Ever Conquer Rome?

"He spent nearly two decades successfully besieging the Italian peninsula. His victory at Cannae caused the greatest single military loss in Roman history. Why didn't Hannibal Barca ever attack Rome itself?"

• He actually did

• Don't let anyone fool you about walls or supply lines or conscriptable forces or relative isolation or anything like that

• He did attack Rome. It went fine

• Better than fine actually

• And he was still able to reach his other objective of disrupting Rome’s strategic network of military alliances in southern Italy

• But he also wanted to attack Rome itself and he did

• Hannibal Barca attacked Rome and even conquered it

• He's still there now, successfully attacking Rome to this day

• If you don't believe me go to Rome and see for yourself

• It's pretty much Elephant City over there