the battle of cannae

FACTS

• -Rome lost the battle of Cannae.
• -Hannibal's plan was to brake Rome apart.
• -They fought near the east coast, at Cannae. 

FACTS

• -By time Hannibal reached the battle all Hannibal's 
• elephants had died.
•  Hannibal elephants had terrified Roman troops. 
• Rome had more troops than Hannibal.

FACTS

• Hannibal's army had 6,000 killed and 10,000 wounded.
• Hannibal told all his men to cut the hamstrings of each Roman.
• only 14,000 were able to reach the town of Canusium.

FACTS

• The war started on a summer in August 2 216 B.C. 
• Hannibal went up ageist 8 Roman legions.  
• More troops where killed in the battle of Cannae than the  
• war of Vietnam.

facts

• Eight Roman legions where under the power of Gaius Terentius Varro
•  and Lucius Aemilius Paullus.
• He cut the hamstrings of those who tried to flee so he could.
• kill them later.
• The Roman legions were the best military units of their day.

webs

• http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ac53
• http://www.roman-empire.net/army/cannae.html