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Battle of Cannae
The
Battle of
Cannae
( or ) is a major battle of the
Second Punic War
that took place on 2 August 216 BC in
Apulia
, in southeast
Italy
. The army of
Carthage
, under
Hannibal
, decisively defeated a larger army of the
Roman Republic
under the
consuls
Lucius Aemilius Paullus
and
Gaius Terentius Varro
. It is regarded both as one of the greatest
tactical
feats in
military history
and as one of the worst defeats in Roman history.
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