Little St. Bernard

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noun

1. St. Bernard, Little.

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Little St. Bernard

Hannibal was 29 when he crossed the Little St. Bernard Pass in the Alps; he was 31 at Cannae and was 45 at Zama.

From Time Magazine Archive

And long before Napoleon's time, Hannibal crossed the Alps into Italy with elephants and a full baggage train, probably via the Little St. Bernard or the Mt.

From Time Magazine Archive

A writer in Smith's "Dictionary" says the account in Polybius "will be found, on the whole, to agree best with the supposition that Hannibal crossed by the Little St. Bernard."

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey

The corps of Thureau, 5000 strong, took the direction of Mount Cenis: that of Chabran, of similar strength, moved by the Little St. Bernard.

From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

He crossed the Pyrenees, went up the valley of the Rhone, and then up the valley of the Isère, and most probably crossed the Alps by the Little St. Bernard pass.

From The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman

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