In the Battle of Cannae (216 B.C.), the Carthaginian General Hannibal deflected the Romans toward the center and then flanked ...

But it was not without precedent and the Roman Empire would recover – it had recovered from Cannae ... was Scipio who took the war to Africa, forcing Hannibal’s recall from Italy, and won the decisive ...

Tomas van Houtryve The First Punic War (264-241 B.C.) was fought over ... “His men slaughtered 50,000 Roman soldiers at the Battle of Cannae in 216 B.C.,” says Allen, “but they never took ...

Carthage, Tunisia (WHTM) In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries ... and pitched battles (the Second Punic War saw the Carthaginian general ...

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 ...

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In the end, Rome emerged victorious in the battle, which marked the end of the First Punic War (264 to 241 B.C.E). Though two more would follow (the Second Punic War was fought between 218 and 201 B.C ...

Underwater archaeologists have located the wrecks of three military ships involved in Japan's invasion of Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands in World War II — an almost-overlooked conflict ...

During the Second Punic War, the famed Carthaginian general ... peninsula after his rout of the Roman legions at the Battle of Cannae in 216 BCE. But Rome had an ace up her sleeve: the young ...