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The battle of Cannae is the most mythical of the conflicts of antiquity.
A trauma for the Roman army, a tactical masterpiece that forged the mythology of the Carthaginian warlord Hannibal. After an incredible overland odyssey across the Pyrenees and the Alps, the Punic warlord and his men spread terror in their victorious descent to the south of the peninsula. On August 2nd, 216 B.C., the Roman army, the largest in the world, lost 50,000 men on the battlefield of Apulia despite its overwhelming numerical superiority. It fell victim to the encircling tactics devised by Hannibal. A strategy still studied today in war schools. History describes this defeat as the "Roman disaster". It is believed that Hannibal was at the gates of Rome.
