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Battle of Cannae
216 BCE · Italy
Quick Facts
- Year
- 216 BCE
- Location
- Italy
- Era
- 🏺 Ancient Greece & Rome
- Difficulty
- hard

Hannibal Barca executed a perfect double envelopment, surrounding and annihilating a Roman army nearly twice his size. An estimated 50,000-70,000 Romans were killed in a single day—one of the deadliest days in military history. The battle remains the gold standard of tactical excellence, studied in military academies worldwide to this day.
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After Cannae, Hannibal's officers collected three bushels of gold rings from the fingers of dead Roman senators and knights, which were poured onto the floor of the Carthaginian senate as proof of victory.