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.

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

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 ...

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

The Carthaginian general’s innovative military ... In both the Battle of Lake Trasimene and the Battle of Cannae Hannibal’s army inflicted devastating casualties on the significantly larger ...

Carthage would sue for peace and pay reparations ... by any army against another in recorded history at the Battle of Cannae. Hannibal's troops killed 70,000-80,000 of Rome's 86,000 soldiers ...

In the ensuing Battle of Zama (202 B.C.), an exceptionally bloody affair, Hannibal’s forces went down to defeat, and Carthage ...

The Roman general Scipio and Carthaginian ... Battle of Zama (in what is now Tunisia), one man—Scipio—was indisputably the winner. But following that episode, as Mr. Hornblower shows in ...