Battle of Cannae
battle · 216 BC
Battle of Cannae, a battle recorded 216 BC: its site mapped, cited to 2 sources, on an interactive historical map you can move through time.
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At a glance
- Kind
- battle
- Date
- 2 August 216 BC
- War
- Second Punic War
- Side 1
- Carthaginian Empire — led by Hannibal
- Side 2
- Roman Republic — led by Gaius Terentius Varro, Lucius Aemilius Paullus
- Result
- Carthaginian victory
- Campaign
- Hannibal's march on Italy
Recorded boundaries
| Period | Control | Confidence | Evidence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 216 BC | — | high confidence | no observation date recorded | The classic double envelopment, studied by commanders ever since. |
Each row is a snapshot the source recorded, not a continuous history. The period between two observations is an inference this atlas shows rather than hides.
Sources
- Tony Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century, (2007)
- Polybius; translated by W. R. Paton, The Histories, Books III and XV, (1922)