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Cannae
2 Aug 216 BC — Hannibal’s double envelopment annihilates the largest army Rome ever fielded: perhaps 60,000–70,000 dead in an afternoon. Rome does not negotiate.
This is one scene of Chapter 2 — The Punic Wars: Hannibal in The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476.
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