Hannibal's Masterpiece - Cannae 216 BC - Second Punic War DOCUMENTARY

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  @KingsandGenerals · 1 year ago · pinned

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  @SeArCh4DrEaMz · 1 year ago (edited)

  To put the Roman republic down to its knees, even for a short time, solely due to his brilliance, genius, wit and determination, yea Hannibal Barca truly deserves his place in history.

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  @johnpaulabocad6941 · 1 year ago (edited)

  216 BC: Paulus’s army gets encircled and annihilated <br>1942: Paulus’s army gets encircled and annihilated<br>Never let anyone named Paulus command your army

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  @total_war_lex · 1 year ago

  &quot;You know how to win, Hannibal. You do not know what to do after&quot; ~ Maharbal

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  @iexist3919 · 1 year ago

  Cannae was a disastrous defeat for Rome, but it also marked a turning point for Hannibal. Hannibal had planned for a short, decisive war, and hoped the Romans would sue for peace as any logical nation would.<br><br>Of course, they did not. Hannibal did carve out a large amount of territory in southern Italy, but given that a lot of the southern Italians there fought on his side, he couldn’t exploit the land as much as he truly needed. The Romans never again tried to confront Hannibal with such a large force, instead choosing to use Fabian strategy. Eventually Hannibal was diminished to just a nuisance in Bruttium by the time Scipio landed in Africa.<br><br>I have absolutely enjoyed this series and I highly recommend joining to become a patron/channel member!

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  @PABCOM1 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Rome before Canae : Courage and honour!<br>Rome after Canae : When he approach, we run away.

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  @R3L3NT_USA · 10 months ago

  The most legendary battle of all time. 20% of a fighting age population in one day with no explosives is insane

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  @70mavgr · 1 year ago

  The fact that Rome managed to recover after such a devastating blow is nothing short of spectacular.

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  @ivanmihelcic3858 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Time to watch 100th Battle of Cannae themed video, but this time from a favourite creator 😅

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  @diegotavel5872 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gObVeaEzklM&amp;t=1000">16:40</a> &quot;And look at what lies before you. A military general&apos;s wet dream, the total encirclement of a much larger force by a much smaller force.&quot;

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  @hatuletoh · 10 months ago

  The lesson of Cannae is that logistics win wars. &nbsp;Hannibal annihilated the largest army Rome had ever fielded, and he did so on the doorstep of Eternal City itself, not in some distant province; moreover, the victory at Cannae wasn&apos;t &nbsp;an isolated event, it was the crowning achievement of a successful campaign that had seen two other major Carthaginian victories and countless other smaller ones. &nbsp;Hannibal had turned great numbers of Italic and Cis-Alpine tribesmen away from allegiance to Rome and to his side, and even when the Carthaginians and their new allies weren&apos;t fighting pitched battles they were hurting Rome by disrupting agricultural output throughout Italy. &nbsp;In short, Hannibal was doing pretty much everything he&apos;d set out to do when he came down out of the Alps to fight the Romans on their own ground, and he managed to keep up his campaign for better than a decade. &nbsp;And yet all these accomplishments, even the victory at Cannae didn&apos;t prevent the final defeat and destruction of Carthage, because the Carthaginian government never allocated to Hannibal sufficient resources to hold the ground he won in Italy, or to take the city of Rome itself. &nbsp;Even with repeated defeats, even after having their army essentially wiped off the map, the Romans were able to gather their resources, which were immediately at hand, and stay in the fight; conversely, to reinforce and resupply Hannibal required the Carthaginian government to ship men and materials across the Mediterranean Sea, which Carthage had the ability to do but it was expensive, uncertain, and slow compared to Roman resupply. &nbsp;And being so far away from the theater or action the Carthaginian leaders&apos; knowledge of the events in Italy was always months out date, which made them even more reluctant to spend the money to give more resources to Hannibal. &nbsp;They certainly left him hanging in Italy, and if they had exerted more effort maybe the ultimate outcome would have been different, but even if Carthage had spared no effort to support Hannibal the length of his supply lines compared to those of his Roman adversaries meant that a final victory would have required far more than just brilliant generalship on battlefields. &nbsp;Generals win battles but logistics win wars.

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  @Azizbek-gw1ll · 1 year ago

  Behold!!!! The battle which has been covered and reviewed by countless channels, but still excites and makes us curious. I wonder what kind of new perspective it will open up for us this time.

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