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Hannibal
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general who commanded the Carthaginian army in the second Punic War; crossed the Alps and defeated the Romans but was recalled to defend Carthage and was defeated (247-182 BC)
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2. noun
a town in northeast Missouri on the Mississippi River; boyhood home of Mark Twain
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