One of the most pivotal battles in Western history, the Battle of Cannae, was fought 2,232 years ago to the year. The Battle of Cannae occurred on August 2, 216 BCE in southeast Italy between ...

Ancient Rome is often thought of as consistently victorious but its defeat at the hands of Carthage in 216 B.C. is one of the most studied and... The 'Ghosts' Of Rome's Loss At The Battle Of Cannae ...

Other battles are perhaps just as famous — Thermopylae, Waterloo, Gettysburg — but the aura of Cannae, where Hannibal obliterated the largest army the Roman Republic had ever put into the field, is ...

I just watched a History Channel special on the Battle of Cannae between Hannibal of the Carthaginians and the Romans. All of the unit explanations, the tactics and the battle itself were depicted by ...

Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "Game of Thrones." Sunday's "Game of Thrones" converged in an enormous battle that fans have been waiting to see all season. Jon Snow and Lady Sansa finally went ...

I went to the most famous battlefield in Western History, and had a surprise. Not a good one. It is a stomp, well off the path, to get to Cannae. The main train lines in Italy run up and down the ...

Carthaginians vs. Romans at Cannae. English vs. French at Agincourt. Confederacy vs. Union at Chancellorsville. In Outnumbered, author Cormac O'Brien details 14 David-and-Goliath battles in which ...

London/New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2006. Pp. xviii, 253. Illus., map, diagr., notes, biblio., index. $37.95 paper. ISBN:0415327431 Cannae is an attempt to ...