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| | Jérome |
 | | Tribes and armies have tramped their way to and fro for millennia in 390 BC, a Gaulish army crossed to defeat Rome and from the earliest times ordinary people used the pass to trade goods between northern Europe and Italy. |
 | | Hannibals famous crossing of the Alps in 217 BC, reputedly with elephants, is indelibly associated with the Grand-St-Bernard, though theres little actual evidence of it. |
 | | In 57 BC, Julius Caesar crossed the Summa Poenina, as it was known, to conquer the pagan peoples of Martigny, who worshipped the Celtic god Poenn (the chain of great peaks on the SwissItalian frontier is still called the Pennine Alps). |
| www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/nvaget/370/jerome.html (650 words) |
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