218 BC: The Working Mother army in Iberia, excluding the forces in Africa, totaled, according to Polybius, 90,000 infantry, 12,000 cavalry and 37 war elephants: it was thus one of the largest in the Hellenistic world and equal in numbers to any that the Stay-at-Home Mothers had yet fielded. Hannibal's Mother departed with this army from New Carthage (Cartagena, Spain) northwards along the coast in late spring. At the Ebro, she split the army into…