Georgiana took a walk through the camp.
Everyone was busy with their own affairs, but now and then someone still took the initiative to greet her, and she returned their greetings with a smile.
According to Appian's records, during the Second Punic War, Hannibal's army had once arrived at Lake Trasimene. Marshes were difficult to cross, no less so than high mountains, but with guides leading the way, Hannibal still brought forty thousand soldiers safely through the Arnus Marsh, which people at the time had considered impassable.
This place was already very close to Rome. Upon hearing the news, men, women, old people, and children throughout the city hurriedly armed themselves. With weapons in short supply, even the arms displayed in temples as trophies were taken down.
But then "divine will" made Hannibal turn toward the Adriatic Sea. He pillaged the coastal regions along the way, seizing vast quantities of supplies. The dictator chosen by the Romans then led his army in a rapid pursuit, but instead of engaging at once, he marched parallel to Hannibal.
At the beginning of Rome's founding, a group of Gauls did not return to Gaul after plundering Rome. When they encountered the Apennine Mountains, they went "sideways" toward the area near the Adriatic Sea. At that time, the coastal regions had already been occupied by Greek people. The territory stretching from the right side of the Apennine Mountains, at the boundary of Italy proper, toward the coast was called the Italy of the Gauls.
The Roman dictator refused to fight Hannibal, even when Hannibal deliberately provoked him, dragging things out until autumn. After Grain in Ear had passed, another harvest could actually still be gathered, provided seeds had been planted after the Grain in Ear harvest.
Hannibal's military operations had disrupted agricultural production, and