The Battle of Cannae (216 BCE) — Rome Walks Into a Trap Hannibal’s genius turned Rome’s army into a cage. Cannae remains the ultimate example of tactical brilliance and disaster. In 216 BCE, during the Second Punic War, Rome faced one of its greatest military disasters at Cannae, in southern Italy. The Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca executed one of history’s most brilliant tactical maneuvers, encircling and annihilating a Roman army far larger than his own. Rome, at the height of its power,
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