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In 216 BC, Rome raised the largest army in its history — 86,000 soldiers — and marched them to a flat plain near Cannae in southern Italy. Their plan was simple. Crush Hannibal by sheer numbers alone.
They never stood a chance.
Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who had already defeated Rome twice, designed a trap so perfect that military academies still study it today. Using a curved battle line, a deliberate false retreat, and a devastating double encirclement, he surrounded the entire Roman army and killed 70,000 men in a single afternoon — more casualties than America suffered in the entire Vietnam War.
This is the story of the Battle of Cannae — Rome's worst day, Hannibal's greatest masterpiece, and the battle that rewrote the rules of warfare forever.
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