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TIL the battle of Cannae (216BCE) is one of the greatest tactical victories in military history and Rome’s worst defeat. With 50,000 men Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca encircled and destroyed a Roman army of 86,000, killing 75,000 and capturing 10,000. Hannibal suffered only 4,000 casualties.

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