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Often appears with: supply, logistics, and encampment · strategy and the aims of war · siege and fortification · hannibal winter quarters · corn supply operations · camp fortifications
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Hannibal moves his army into winter quarters at Geronium after hearing of corn in the region, tries negotiations, lays siege, kills inhabitants, and fortifies his camp for harvesting and storage.
[Sidenote: Minucius obtains a slight success. Autumn B.C. 217.] +101.+ When Minucius took over the command from Fabius, he at first kept along the line of hills, feeling certain that he would sooner or later fall in with the Carthaginians; but when he heard that Hannibal had already taken Geronium, and was collecting the corn of the country, and had pitched his camp in front of the town, he changed the direction of …