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
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
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
Double Envelopment in History | History Forum One of the most useful and hard to accomplish tactics in military history is the double-envelopment or pincer movement Hannibal used in the Battle of Cannae and Marshal Georgy Zhukov in the Siege of Stalingrad against the invading German army Due to the many factors needed for a successful
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
Mortality Rates in Ancient Battles? - History Forum What was the rough death-to-participant ratio on the losing side in ancient battles and wars? Did most losing combatants in general perish during battle?
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
Battle of Arausio-Romes worse defeat. . . what went so wrong? About 80,000 Roman died, not Socii like Cannae actually 80,000 Roman Legionaires Worse defeat than Cannae What went so wrong at Arausio? I can't find any good sources on it Could the Germans actually field 200,000 troops? A unbelievable number I highly doubt the Germans could even field 100,000 with their logistics
The Pincer Movement | History Forum Marathon, Cannae and to extent Trebia, later Manzikert, much later Kiev, where the Germans managed to surround nearly half a million troops, and Stalingrad with the Soviet double pincer attack against the German sixth army