Battle of Cannae The Battle of Cannae, a major battle of the Second Punic War, took place on August 2, 216 BC in Apulia in southeast Italy. The army of Carthage under Hannibal decisively defeated a larger army of the Roman Republic under the consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
After the victory at Cannae, Hannibal did not seem to have a cohesive plan as he had during the first phase of the war. He spent most of the time travelling between cities, and would often experience failures and frustrations when trying to win them over through negotiation of force. To me, it...
What is the closest resembles to a battle of Cannae in the 19th-21st century?
One of the most useful and hard to accomplish tactics in military history is the double-envelopment or pincer movement. Hannibal used in the Battle of Cannae and Marshal Georgy Zhukov in the Siege of Stalingrad against the invading German army. Due to the many factors needed for a successful...
At the battles of Cannae and Zama (216 and 202 BC) The Numidian cavalry fended off better armed and armored cavalry forces, as well as, in the case of Cannae, a numerically superior force. In both cases, the result of the battle was a victory for whoever the Numidians happened to be fighting...
I am trying to track down a reference which I "know" exists. I believe I read it in Adrian Goldsworthy's The Punic Wars ten years ago, but I haven't been able to find a neat summary anywhere else. Anyway, I am curious about what proportion of the Roman aristocracy died at Cannae. I think...