Why Didnt Hannibal March on Rome? | History Forum And didn't Hannibal prove at Cannae that he could defeat armies twice the size of his own? Also, I don't think the part of "hostile territory" is quite true If Hannibal had marched on Rome, the Italian Allies would probably have joined Hannibal, thus making Italy friendly territory, thus making supply lines a very small problem
Most humiliating roman defeat? - History Forum Battle of Cannae The Battle of Cannae, a major battle of the Second Punic War, took place on August 2, 216 BC in Apulia in southeast Italy The army of Carthage under Hannibal decisively defeated a larger army of the Roman Republic under the consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro
Zama: Scipio and Hannibal After thoughts - History Forum After Cannae, Hannibal apparently ran out of ideas He lost the initiative, allowed Fabius to turn the tide of the war against him, and eventually found himself trapped in southern Italy Clearly he never understood fully the importance of seapower By contrast, Scipio showed his military greatness in the originality and vision of his strategy
Second Punic War: evaluate Carthages chances to victory Cannae and Silva Litana had just happened, pro-Carthaginian rebellions were breaking out in Italy, Sicily and Sardinia, Philip was looking to help Hannibal in Italy, and Syracuse was on the verge of allying with Hannibal
The Demography of Ancient Macedon - History Forum Well, by that logic, Mid-Republican Rome never had more than 110-130 thousand adult male citizens since the largest citizen force they deployed in one battle was the ca 45 thousand citizens in Cannae While it's likely that Macedon was certainly smaller demographically than Republican Rome, which had 300-350 thousand adult male citizens, thus around a million citizens in total, I don't think
What if Hannibal Barca had managed to defeat Rome In the aftermath of Cannae, large areas of southern Italy defected to Hannibals side and assuming that the roman senate decided to surrender after Cannae, that means they would have needed to put up with granting these new Carthigian allies independence, as well as the Gauls who had rallied to Hannibal when he initially descended from the Alps
Why do people think that Hannibal Barca is a genius when he clearly isn . . . Why do people think that Hannibal Barca is a genius when he clearly isn't? He's just basically a mediocre copycat person who copied ancient Greek tactics and ancient Greek strategies He isn't a revolutionary He is a copycat In order for Hannibal to won a decisive victory in Cannae against the
Revisiting Cannae: 7 reasons why the Romans could not have . . . The battle of Cannae (216 BC) pitting Hannibal’s Carthaginian army against an allegedly much larger Roman force in the south of Italy remains to this day a subject of fascination As a devastating Roman defeat (perhaps the most devastating in the history of the Romans) at the hands of a clever
Wich battle campaign deserves the title of the modern Cannae . . . Childish as it may seem, the fixation with Cannae is not something exclusive of armchair generals Since at least the XIX century western militaries became interested and even obsessed with Cannae Winfield Scott, the victor of the Mexican-American war once tried to "replicate" Cannae against