The Battle of Cannae occurred on August 2, 216 BCE in southeast Italy between Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal Barca and Roman forces led by Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.

The Battle of Cannae occurred on August 2, 216 BCE in southeast Italy between Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal Barca and Roman forces led by Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.

Still, the Battle of Cannae marked a stunning victory for Carthage over Rome. Hannibal and his army enveloped a larger Roman army, annihilating it and killing more Romans in one day than the ...

At Cannae, Rome suffered more casualties than ever, with only Arausio and, in percentage terms, Teutoburg exceeding it. Livy estimates Hannibal’s losses between six and eight thousand, while Polybius ...

Cannae is an attempt to apply the methodology developed by John Keegan in his ground-breaking The Face of Battle (1976), to the most notable battle of the Second Punic War (216 BC).. In this work, ...

The first was the Battle of Cannae, which took place in 216 BC, where the army of Carthage defeated a much larger army from the Roman Republic led by Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.

English vs. French, Battle of Agincourt, 1415. The Battle of Agincourt took place on a single day: Oct. 25, 1415. In northern France, 6,000 English soldiers under the command of Henry V defeated ...