Battle of cannae in 1 minute

Having recovered from their losses at Trebia (218 BC) and Lake Trasimene (217 BC), the Romans decided to engage Hannibal at Cannae, with approximately 86,000 Roman and allied troops. They massed their heavy infantry in a deeper formation than usual, while Hannibal used the double envelopment tactic and surrounded his enemy, trapping the majority of the Roman army, who were then slaughtered. The loss of life on the Roman side meant it was one of the most lethal single days of fighting in history; Adrian Goldsworthy equates the death toll at Cannae to "the massed slaughter of the British Army on the first day of the Somme offensive in 1916".[3] Only about 15,000 Romans, most of whom were from the garrisons of the camps and had not taken part in the battle, escaped death. Following the defeat, Capua and several other Italian city-states defected from the Roman Republic to Carthage.
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[@cristianserret4190]

I dont think people realise not just the genius of Barca. But also, the grusomeness of the battle. Its known that about 30.000 gallons of blood were spilled on the field that day. Imagine that...

[@mantralibre1367]

In 6 hours 60000 were exterminated. I'm from Rome. In schools this is well taught, and still regarded as Rome's worst defeat.

[@SwordAndSiege]

@@mantralibre1367 that's almost 3 people per second for 6 hours straight. it must have been terrifying to be in the center, waiting for your turn. terrible.

[@DJM3991]

@@SwordAndSiegeabsolutely mad thinking of such carnage

[@KirbBaller]

this just gets to show that even back then encircling was just as effective as it is in say ww2.

[@pabnckncykma1297]

Yeah, it's been a tactic since warfare started to become a thing thousands of years ago

[@lemonlam1880]

Zhukov

[@darrowdapper9659]

You just cant maneuver

[@justinstrong9595]

Wow...almost like it started WAY before ww2. What a nonce.

[@danishkfd]

Forget ww2, today in Ukraine, the huge chunks Russia has been capturing is due to the threat of encirclement.

[@davidlaya939]

People talk about Caesar, Napoleon, Alexander the Great. But Hannibal is one of the most underrated generals of all time. If one battle were to be labeled « THE battle » or « GREAT victory », it would be Cannae

[@Darknimbus3]

Don’t forget about Scipio Africanus who managed to play a similar card on Hannibal himself and determine the victor of the Second Punic War

[@johnpijano4786]

Hannibal is not underated. People have been talking and writing books about him for decades.

[@ajmerthethy6724]

Hannibal ain’t underrated. He’s generally considered one of the greatest tacticians and generals of all time.

[@mantralibre1367]

Trust me, being from Rome, we do not underestimate him at all. They teach him pretty much in schools, and still is considered as one of the greatest generals and tacticians in history

[@justinstrong9595]

I mean, Hannibal is not underrated

[@Punicia]

One of those survivors was Scipio Africanus, who made a legendary rebound, dissuading the remaining survivors to abscond from Rome altogether

[@Awells89]

Give Hannibal credit. Tricking the Romans into essentially trapping themselves was ingenious.

[@Scrungge]

Allegedly three times as deadly as the battle of the Somme, crazy.

[@Spiderfisch]

This battle has like 80000 casualities while the somme has 1 million

[@Scrungge]

@Spiderfisch I meant as an offensive. Cannae took place over a single day while the battle of the Somme took more than 4 months.

[@thoughtsuponatime847]

I suspect this was intentional on Hannibal’s part. It just went too perfectly

[@NeverTHOUGHTofIT]

Yeah bro was told by ba'al that mfrs in 2200 yrs later will repeat this shit on loop.

[@jefftaylor1186]

Disaster.
That only took 5 seconds.

[@mantralibre1367]

6 hours, 60000 romans dead. Our worst defeat if I recall..

[@missk1697]

That's an epic comeback

[@epicgta5btctutorialsyrd353]

germans do it better

[@isaacsepicytchannel2708]

It isn't a comeback, the roman push was actually wanted by Hannibal

[@Tarquinthetyrant]

it was on purpose

[@kalacaptain4818]

you don't territory shading for a battle that happened before combustion engines ....

[@Oxborracha]

please give me tutorial video

[@uncreativename8526]

The tutorial video is under this video

[@Michael-uf1hz]

Battlefield perfection you cannot learn this you must be born knowing.

[@Michael-uf1hz]

@Nemanja Jovanovic I was being facetious man relax.

[@Michael-uf1hz]

@Nemanja Jovanovic ?

[@spooky2291]

@@uncreativename8526 Where?

[@bigdaddyrat7854]

Glorious

[@thedeatheater5665]

Came from oversimplified

[@Casperdcvd]

or historymarche, I feel like oversimplified based quite a bit of information in his video on the videos of historymarche

[@HITBnn]

@@Casperdcvdyeah felt that way too. So many of his lines were basically copy pasted from historymarche lol

[@raidang]

Oversimplified missed out alot of information leading to Cannae ​@@HITBnn

[@boithanhau2892]

Yeee, this video got the formation wrong

[@thebigflop3118]

Source = uhm i wass dere 🤓☝️

[@boithanhau2892]

@@thebigflop3118 lol

[@Kaiserschlacht19]

This is copy and paste from history marche

[@BelisariuSF]

There isn't even any formation here. Roman units have semi-random placement and movement.

[@funfstuck]

i think we may see that scenario in Pokrovs’k, Ukraine

[@SageAmariKeyes]

Unlikely considering the attritional warfare used in Ukraine.

[@danishkfd]

Against all rumours, no. UA is in dire state. They just retreated in the South towards hirynk. They might have to retreat again due to threat of encirclement in tsukryne

[@nicoperera8584]

Carthage did win the war But not like that

[@oliversproductionsYT]

They didn’t win tho

[@BattleMarche]

Hey! Nice to meet ya .Soooo the problem is that i Copyd ur vid and i accedently forgot entering ur name on it so i hope you dont mind😅 Again sorry!

[@alaindechaume1803]

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