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TIL That facing defeat and surrounded by the Roman army, Hannibal sent oxen with torches tied to them toward the Roman camp, causing the Romans to send their entire army to meet the oxen while Hannibal and his men escaped through a mountain pass that the Romans had been blocking before the deception

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