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The Battle of Cannae (/ ˈ k æ n i,-eɪ,-aɪ /; [c] Latin: [ˈkanːae̯]) was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 BC near the ancient village of Cannae in Apulia, southeast Italy.
Battle of Cannae: Roman attack (red). Destruction of the Roman army (red). Year 216 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Varro and Paullus (or, less frequently, year 538 Ab urbe condita).
Lucius Aemilius Paullus (died 2 August 216 BC), also spelled Paulus, was a consul of the Roman Republic twice, in 219 and 216 BC.He is primarily remembered for being one of the commanders of the Roman army at the Battle of Cannae, and for his death in the same battle.
The Battle of Silva Litana was an ambush that took place in a forest 75 miles northwest of the Roman city of Ariminum during the Second Punic War in 216 BC. [1] The Gallic Boii surprised and destroyed a Roman army under the consul-elect Lucius Postumius Albinus. Of 25,000 Romans, only 13 survived, with a few being taken prisoner by the Gauls.
Battle of Carteia – Romans defeat Carthaginians in Hispania. Battle of Carteia (naval) – Romans defeat Carthaginians in a naval battle near the city of Carteia. 204 BC Autumn: Siege of Utica – Scipio's siege of Utica in Africa fails. Battle of Crotona – Hannibal fought a drawn battle against the Roman general Sempronius in Southern ...
In times of emergency, a consul might be authorised to raise a double-strength army of four legions, but the allied alae would always number two, as they represented the two wings of the battle line, but were double strength e.g., at the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC, where each consul commanded an army of about 40,000 men. [26]
In November, Geminus resumed command of Roman land forces and, having been elected proconsul in early 216, became involved in skirmishes with approaching Carthaginian forces under Hannibal from March until May, before he was killed while in command of the center of the Roman line during the Battle of Cannae on August 2, 216 BC.
Publius Sempronius C.f. Tuditanus (fl. 3rd century BC) was a Roman Republican consul and censor, best known for leading about 600 men to safety at Cannae in August, 216 BC and for the Treaty of Phoenice which ended the First Macedonian War, in 205 BC.