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  • Bari Metropolitan City, Italy
    216 BC
    Roman Republic

    Aemilius Paullus and Terentius Varro mustered the biggest army possible

    Bari Metropolitan City, Italy
    216 BC

    In 216, the new consuls Aemilius Paullus and Terentius Varro mustered the biggest army possible, with eight legions (more than 80,000 soldiers) – twice as many as the Punic army – and confronted Hannibal, who was encamped at Cannae, in Apulia.




  • Canna, Cosenza, Italy
    Friday Aug 2, 216 BC
    Roman Republic

    Battle of Cannae

    Canna, Cosenza, Italy
    Friday Aug 2, 216 BC

    The Battle of Cannae 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.




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