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On August 2, 216 BC, on a flat plain near the Aufidus River in southern Italy, the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca destroyed a Roman army of approximately 86,000 men in a single afternoon. Somewhere between 47,000 and 70,000 Romans died — the numbers vary by ancient source …
Carthage must be destroyed. The phrase — Carthago delenda est — was reportedly repeated by Cato the Elder at the end of every Senate speech he gave, …
On a June morning in 217 BC, the Roman consul Gaius Flaminius led his army of approximately 25,000 men along the northern shore of Lake Trasimene in …
The Battle of Zama in 202 BC ended the Second Punic War and established Roman dominance over the western Mediterranean for the next three centuries. …