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.

For this fight, in 216 BC, they raised yet another. Some 85,000 Romans and their allies, homogenous in all but name, faced Hannibal at Cannae. He had a mixed force of 50,000 at best, and probably ...

The defeat at the Battle of Cannae. This battle was part of the Second Punic War, which had begun two years earlier as Rome and Carthage vied for control of the western Mediterranean. Shortly after it ...

Other battles are perhaps just as famous — Thermopylae, Waterloo, Gettysburg — but the aura of Cannae, where Hannibal obliterated the largest army the Roman Republic had ever put into the ...

and sent them to Cannae. The two sides met up on August 2, 216 B.C., in what is still history’s most horrific battle. Hannibal’s army lured the enemy soldiers into a trap and, encircling them ...

Though it was fought six hundred years before Adrianople, the Battle of Cannae remained proverbial. In 217 BC, at Lake Trasimene in Etruria, the Carthaginian general Hannibal had trapped and massacred ...