Congressional Candidate Les Lester's Talk at the State Capitol

Hannibal's Tactical Defeat of the Romans, Won but for Reinforcements... .

The documentary was accurate in portraying a Black Hannibal, which extant sources corroborate. But the surrounding soldiers, though some were Black in the film, were European looking for the most part, in this modern version. The filmmaker did note that many of Hannibal's soldiers were from the Italian countryside. Rome had emerged as a colony of Etruria, (Etruscan coin, possibly Hannibal), even the so-called barbarian tribesmen would have been more mixed-looking than the film illustrates. There were still Etruscan city states in the time of the Punic Wars.