August 2, 216 BC: Rome Sent Two Men to Command One Army
By dawn on August 2, 216 BC, approximately 86,000 Roman and allied soldiers were drawn up on a flat plain near the town of Cannae in Apulia. Facing them was a Carthaginian force roughly half their size. Before sunset, somewhere between 47,000 and 70,000 Romans would be dead — killed not in a rout but...
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