Cannae Hannibals Greatest Victory

From an awardwinning historian of ancient Rome the definitive history of Romes most devastating defeatAugust 2 216 BC was one of historys 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 50000 Ro