Great Battles in History

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Cannae

The Battle of Cannae was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 BC near the ancient village of Cannae in Apulia, southeast Italy. The Carthaginians and their allies, led by Hannibal, surrounded and practically annihilated a larger Roman and Italian army under the consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. It is regarded as one of the greatest tactical feats in military history and one of the worst defeats in Roman history.

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01: Stalingrad - 1942 02: Trafalgar 1805 03: Pearl Harbour 04: The Battle of Marathon 05: The Lost Evidence of Iwo Jima 06: D-Day 07: The Battle of Waterloo - 1815 08: Chalons 09: Battle of Hastings 1066 10: Merrill’s Marauders 11: The Battle of Austerlitz 12: Gallipoli 13: Midway 14: The Battle of Gettysburg - 1863 15: The Armada - 1588 16: Battle of the Bulge 17: The Third Crusade 18: The battle of Alesia 19: Cannae 20: The Six-Day War 21: The Battle of Britain 22: Battle of Kadesh - Ramesses II 23: The Battle of Agincourt 24: The Battle of Inchon 25: Tobruk 26: Little Bighorn 27: Cambrai 1917 28: Operation Desert Storm 29: The Great War 30: Saratoga and The Battle of Rivoli 31: The Battle for Berlin 32: The Battle of El Alamein 33: TET Ofenssive 34: The Russo-Finnish War 35: The Battle of Tannenberg 36: Life in the Trenches 37: Monte Cassino 1944 38: Balaclava 1854 39: Guadalcanal