As Varro (pictured) and his colleagues designed new tactics defense, Hannibal walked down the Adriatic coast of the Italian peninsula busy grocery store and train the new troops had been recruited on the fly. There were to pick the consuls with an army, to believe Polybius, exceeded the Carthaginian in a ratio of two to one. Hannibal ordered his troops back to the wind so that clouds of dust raised by the Carthaginians were to hit the face of the Romans. He ordered his infantry in a crescent with the convex side facing the enemy. In the center put the mercenary Gauls and Iberians and ends at the Libyan - plenty to hint at the similarities with modern armies such as the war in Vietnam. The Numidian cavalry was placed on the right wing and left Iberian. The Romans threw the bulk of its troops against the Carthaginian training center, which gradually gave way to move from its initial convex to concave. Before the Carthaginian front was broken by the wedge Roman end Libyans attacked the Roman side. The Carthaginian cavalry made an encircling movement behind the Romans and they were completely surrounded.
Of the 80,000 Romans who had entered the battle, some 70,000 perished. The rest was taken prisoner, less a small group that was the only consul Survivor, Terence.
The Carthaginian Hannibal hoped would give the order to march on Rome, but did not. Was much more important for him to take the victory to separate from Rome to his allies.
After the disaster of Cannae, which no other we have spoken so far, the Roman command realized that the only way to defeat Hannibal was further vilified methods Fabius Maximus, who went from being a coward, a statesman. At the same time, it was urgently necessary to send troops to Spain to cut communications between Hannibal and his base in Hispania and North Africa.
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