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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A Roman senator reflects on his past, where he saved his father from Carthaginian forces. The narrative emphasizes the urgency for Rome to counter Hannibal's threat in Italy by launching an ...

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 ...