The Battle of Cannae

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One of the most accurate ancient <b>battle</b> depictions in modern media. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae Swearing vengeance against Rome for the humiliation they inflicted on Carthage, Hannibal Barca in his Iberian kingdom set out on an audacious plan to strike at Rome's heart in Italy, by marching an army of between 60000 and 80000 men overland through southern Gaul and over the Alps. Somewhere over 40000 arrived in Italy with Hannibal some months later. With inferior numbers ...

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  • Rome was in danger, ...

    Rome was in danger, Rome was close to being besieged, however Hannibal did not have the man power to do so.
    The reason they waged war in Spain was to get rid of Hannibal's main recruitment area, to get rid of all of his man power, so that reinforcements could not come.
    Rome, made Hannibal fight defensively in a remote area, because Hannibal was winning in Italy.

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  • Hannibal coming ...

    Hannibal coming from the north bypassed ROME because he couldn't afford a siege of the city, protected by a three difensive lines. He moved to the south hoping to mobilize the south peoples against ROME. Mistake he didn't get any help, he arrived to the wrong place, so he was obliged to move southeast where he could feed his army, but he was far from ROME with even less men than he bypassed ROME. No way he could siege ROME! When he was still in Italy ROME moved an army to africa..Zama..the end

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  • During all the ...

    During all the Hannibal campaign, ROME has never been in danger,even after the Cannae defait. The danger has been exagereted by the roman historians just to make even greater the ROME victory. If you all, study the singles cronics of the Hannibal campaign you can realize that. ROME kept all the time a legion is Spain, you do that if you are in danger? not at all! This same legion stopped the hannibal's brother who was bringing help to Hannibal. Hannibal needed that help,but he didn't get it.

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  • Hannibal, one of ...

    Hannibal,
    one of the greatest warriors of all time.

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  • By not following ...

    By not following Maharbal's advice, not only
    did he not take Rome, but Carthage lost
    everything at Zama 14 years later.

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  • Was this a movie ? ...

    Was this a movie ?

    I've always wondered why they didn't
    make Cannae and Zama into cinema movies.

    Hannibal should have taken his chances and
    marched into Rome, despite that he had no
    siege equipment. The sight of his army would
    have been enough to cause the Roman
    senate to surrender.

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  • You are confusing ...

    You are confusing me with the other guy. I have stated that Hannibal was a Carthaginian of Semitic stock. It was the Afrocentrist moron who claimed that Hannibal must have been black because African, according to his moron ass, is synonymous with black.

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  • Can someone tell me ...

    Can someone tell me why are u speaking about africa? hannibal is a descendant from the phoenicians that means middle east, that is ASIA. Of course the carthagenic* empire was settled in Spain and north africa but that is beacause the carthageneans* lost the second punic war and where kicked from asia. The third punic war is with hanibal. So stop arguing stuff u don't know about uncultured F****ts

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  • I`ve travelled in ...

    I`ve travelled in North Africa and you see everything a bit of everything and everything mixed. The thousands of years have left their mark there. Americans tend to think in such simplistic terms when it comes to"Race". Travel! Know history!

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  • Egypt has all races ...

    Egypt has all races and is a mix of many. get off that egyptians are black nonsense

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