The Greatest Tactical Battle of Antiquity — Cannae
2,236 years ago, at the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal of Carthage annihilated a much larger Roman army with tactics still studied to this day. On 2 August 216 B.C., during the Second Punic War, an army of 50,000 Carthaginians, under the command of Hannibal, met a Roman army of some
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