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Hannibal ante portas!

It was the year 216 BC. The helmets of the Roman legions, glittering in the sun. There were 80,000 in number, also were many spears it. 20 legions, the last of the mighty Roman Empire innenländischen reserves stood here at the site Cannae. They should stop the gerade18-year-old Hannibal, who had crossed the Alps with a powerful army and had lost 30,000 men and countless war elephants. It should be the final battle, after many defeats Rome.

Hannibal had less than half the Carthaginian soldiers, as the Romans. 40 000 80 000 Carthaginians against the Romans. One was a Roman confident. Since it would not help that Hannibal was a brilliant strategist

On the other hand, the Carthaginians were with their war elephants. They were exhausted from the long march. Another plus point for the Romans. blew When the Roman generals to attack, ran a confident army of the Carthaginians. Effortlessly, the Romans broke through the middle. The front was very bad there. All the Romans were fighting now. At that moment a conversion of the Carthaginian troops, who set the standard for hundreds of years of military history would. While the Romans fought, they were trapped by the strong edges of the Carthaginians. The Romans were surrounded. Now they were attacked from all sides and defeated. The Battle of Cannae

plotted by Piotr Tysarczyk:

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Hannibal had with this so expect another victory, not a single defeat. The Roman general Scipio and his fleet, he had avoided successfully, and he conquered or liberated areas of Roman rule. Then he came to Rome on. But then stopped the onward march.

While Hannibal fought and suffered the losses that is, he was cut off from fresh troops and Scipio had the Carthaginian possessions in what is now Spain under attack. He also attacked Carthage to open. Hannibal had to go back-to Carthage.

There he faced the legions of Scipio and suffered his first defeat. Rome saw after the victory for the recapture and Hannibal was forced to flee the country.

When he learned in old age, that the Romans knew where he was, and they wanted to execute him publicly, he poisoned himself, he could not endure this humiliation. Rather be dead if the Romans come, as are killed by the Romans.