Cannae - Hannibal's Greatest Victory
epub | 3.84 MB | English | Author :Adrian Goldsworthy | 1541699254 | 2001 | Basic Books


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[spoiler]From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, the definitive history of Rome's most devastating defeat

August 2, 216 BC was one of history's bloodiest single days of fighting. On a narrow plain near the Southern Italian town of Cannae, despite outnumbering their opponents almost two to one, a massive Roman army was crushed by the heterogeneous forces of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who had spectacularly crossed the Alps into Italy two years earlier. The scale of the losses at Cannae-50,000 Roman men killed-was unrivaled until the industrialized slaughter of the First World War. Although the Romans eventually recovered and Carthage lost the war, the Battle of Cannae became Romans' point of reference for all later military catastrophes. Ever since, military commanders confronting a superior force have attempted, and usually failed, to reproduce Hannibal's tactics and their overwhelming success.

In Cannae, the celebrated...
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Category : | Ancient Military History, History of North Africa, Ancient African History

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