Battle of Cannae, 216 BC (Chapter 3) ⚔️ The Carnage ⚔️ Hannibal (Part 13) - Second Punic War 

Bro thank you for you hard work, take a week off you realy deserve it, we pledge to restrain from asking when the next video will be released until 2022.

@@RayanBacha95 Haha, cheers :)

We waited for this too much

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12 DAYS LATER ITS HERE AT LAST!!! Hannibal took its time to assmeble his biggest ambush yet lmao

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I was just about to comment this

Yessir

Me

same, I saw this vid a year ago but didn't bother to watch

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Ice age Fan?

@@war_designer8763 the very successful failure

@@lukecc1097 Lol, I even read it in his voice!

@@war_designer8763 Most definitely. Rome is the Eternal City after all.

HAha

Honestly the video made me so tense, but in a good way

"Look at that formation! The Romans can still win!"

I didn't know the outcome when I first watched, and I was really sad when I saw Hannibal losing, as I personally believe he was an amazing general. Then the trap activated and I was amazed.

Watching these video’s i often wondered why an army would not flank with infantry. If they are superior in number. Some ancient leaders like Hannibal and Julius Caesar had some giant balls back then.

haha ok that's a fun fact xD

never heard it

Indeed it does

Yes it did I didn't know Hannibal actually won a battle against the Romans.

Not for Romans though

@@drop883 what?? He won every battle against the romans except the last one

Indeed

can you explain losses for mind games?

@@Skindred727 I think he means hannibals tactic in this video. Hannibal endured most of his losses because of the centre push, which was a mind game to trap the roman infanterie.

@@vic8497 how he control his army from fake losses? cause there was a history about army losses cause of 1 horse.

@@ksagitarius I do not understand your question quite well. All I know is that this strategy was a huge gamble by Hannibal. I believe to think he had some great captains who kept the centre in order. A pushed back centre is demoralizing and can cause a full rout/collapse to the whole army.

incredible

Hannibal would approve.

I totally agree

So true!

I can‘t wart for the Battle of Zama

The barrel was indeed almost completely scraped after Cannae. But hats off to Rome

I will trade 5% professionalism for manpower.

@@doomdrake123 LOL

@@doomdrake123 Ahhh the man of eu4 as well

good thing rome starts with 110% war support^^

To be fair hannibal WAS possible to beat in a field battle, it just required a lot of caution. Also the leadership clearly learned from previous failures when they picked the fighting ground in this battle, almost any other leader would have failed to pull off such a daring ambush in an open field.

Hannibal’s legacy goes beyond that. Keep in mind that the root cause of the collapse of the Roman Republic was due to Senate corruption and issues with land and wealth redistribution as an indirect effect of the Punic Wars. That led to the Populares, the Gracchi, Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Crassus, Caesar, Octavian, multiple Roman civil wars, etc.

True this guy doesn't even know how HARD it is to pull off that encirclement. Even I have a hard time doing that in Total War, imagine in real life. Needless to say, he was one heck of a General that Hannibal.

@@dole-brentbayalas854 dude dont comapare a game where you can micro manage troops to real life

​@@proximitive3872 Oh shut up

He may not be the number one goat but For that specific moment (Cannae) Hannibal reached a prime unmatched by anyone ever.

All in the plan.

​@@Red-90 Khalid ibn waleed destroyed the Roman's and Persians simultaneously. He never lost a battle and fought many many battles. Battle of yarmouk was 40k vs 200k

@@Red-90 I guess you could argue that. Us muslims call him the sword of Allah. One time he told the Roman army. I have come with a army that loves death more than you love wine and money. He once said "I would throw myself onto the enemy lines until I was certain I would not come out alive yet I remain here on my bed dying like the cattle". In islam we believe those who are killed for sake of Allah are alive and they are granted Paradise. Before he died he quoted "May the cowards never sleep"

@@jawadsabih4979 Khalid is one of the greatest generals of all time but the Byzantines didn’t field any army of 200K at a time. Eastern Rome and Persia had been at war a lot. Yarmouk was probably in the 2:1 or 3:1 range in terms of how much the Muslim army was outnumbered.

i am wondering , why no one made a good movie or series on him , he was a great man ever lived, i read a book on him long ago , and from that day i am so inspired from this great man ,

Hannibal Vs Scipio: the last showdown of the free folk.

The Diadochi really deserves a high budget series...it would be better than Game of thrones.

@@barkat500 too expensive. Also hard to get scale and individual suffering on shot,

Vin Diesel has been planning that for years but there hasn't been any recent news since 2017.

Right?! SOmetimes it gives me chills...when the timing is perfect.

Certainly

Don’t forget the battle of Thermopylae..while it wasn’t a victory it made way for the whole 2nd greko-Persian war victory..5000 men in total(roughly) holding off around 100,000 Persians by using the terrain to their advantage is a brilliant strategy..and if not for the betrayal they probably would’ve won..

@@seancascanet3428 they were doomed to fail. They managed to hold off some of the Persians but even if there is no betrayal, they will sooner or later be overwhelmed anyway Leonidas' aim was never to win the battle, but to give example and raise the spirits of the rest of the greeks to fight the Persians off the Greek land..

Yup i agree but yarmouk was genius at that time and this is genius at thier time

@@mamun3031 yes

except his overusing that wilhelm screem sfx gets pretty annoying.

Wow, thanks a lot Rex. I can't tell you how much I appreciate positive feedback from longtime subscribers, who have also been active in the comment section and helping my videos. And yes, I agree, the outcome at Cannae was anything but certain. Hasdrubal had to spend maybe even 1-2 hours resting the horses, and Hannibal had no way of knowing if the cavalry attack on the flank succeeded. Plus, his center routed (or at least part of it). These are just two of many details that could've twisted the outcome had just a few things went differently. It was a close run thing imo, but still brilliant from Hannibal.

@@HistoryMarche I appreciate you keeping tabs on us Triarii in the comments section since the channels inception :') Yep. It's obvious that Hannibal was a pretty ballsy commander. Not only did he take all the aforementioned risks but he put himself in the most dangerous part of the battlefield a Carthaginian could be in. As much as I love Rome, can't help but root for this genius.

good job

@@HistoryMarche hanibal had the walkie talkie on which he communicated with other troops

Some of us legit didn't know who was going to win!

Will be covered in the next episode. Thanks for watching!

@@HistoryMarche That's excellent to hear! It's so easy to forget that these historical statistics are made up of people as real as you and me

@@HistoryMarche You are amazing.

I always wonder what happens after, do they just let the bodies rot? Leaving thousands of skeletons behind?

Sitting Bull - I felt that. 😳

I'm watching WW2 week by week, and right now the Germans are doing great. It is strange knowing the outcome, but back then it must have been anyone's game.

Loads. Gallic ambush of the Romans, Longus victory over Hanno, The 3 battles at Nola, 2 at Capu, 2 at Herculaneum, capturing of and loss of Tarentum, the 2 day battle against Marcellus, Marcellus's ambush and death the following year, Nero's limited victory over Hannibal in 207, battle of Metaurus (possibly the decisive battle of the war or at least the end of Carthaginian hopes for total victory). I'm probably forgetting heaps and these are just the Italian theatre.

@@ronbou4728 Spoiler alert

imagine they make movies about the punic wars...

@@yassinewertani-tn5217 they made I think...they are old....if they did they should make a new one

Wow, thank you!

Would love to see in modern day view of this battlefield

A hero except for the murdering children for Baal part. By the way, was he part Iberian of the original stock, making him my kin? I think his mother was Iberian.

@@scintillam_dei Roman propaganda. He was a carthaginian aristocrat

@@MarouenAK So his name is Roman propaganda to you. Baal is in his name, so he honoured the god that demands child sacrifice.

@@scintillam_dei I am speaking of child sacrifice

@@scintillam_dei how many child ,wwoman ,innocent people had romans enjoyed watching them die and get eaten in the Colosseum ?

indeed ! If Hannibal's commanders and officiers weren't good enough, it would be impossible for him to execute the plan properly

Nah, Hannibal was slow. He couldn't walk properly because of heavy brassballs

Yet Rome perseveres, a testament to their immaculate courage

@@50shekels Taking absolutely nothing away from Rome. Economy, organisation, scale and citizenry willing to take arms even after a terrific defeat all speaks volumes why they became the dominant power.

Hannibal is truly one of the best Generals to have walked on this earth he is so Great His Fame and Glorious battles are even bigger then some kings

Thank you for watching. More episodes coming soon.

Thank you sir.

Agree, I have watched the same battle depicted by many channels too many times and I was still expecting a roman victory after the center had routed. This is the best depiction of the battle I had seen thus far, and the most suspenseful.

Definitely check out Goldsworthy's book. It is absolutely fascinating. Here's the link www.amazon.com/Cannae-Hannibals-Greatest-Adrian-Goldsworthy/dp/1541699254 It's actually very easy to read and follow, and he does an excellent job at analyzing the battle.

Theadore something dodge has the best book on Hannibal. He looks at polybius and Levy's accounts (although polybius basically copied levy, aside from the "more fantastical liberties he took" also visited all the sites estimated to be the battle sites and tries to pin down a single location (and route, over Alps. Etc) based on all available Intel. And logic. By far the most informative and in-depth look at the 2nd Punic war(although a little dry at times due to the vast amount of info and context. By the way, this version is seriously lacking in detail and facts. Do more research. It drives me nuts that there are so many videos on Hannibal and almost all utterly fail in explaining what a tactical genius he was. This video gets about 75-80% right, (although the rest is of tremendous importance, and therefore...) Hannibal knew the Roman army (officers temperaments, etc) Better than any Roman counsol)

@@craigw6923 what are you saying Polybius copied Titus Livius?!?!? Polybius lived and died like 100 years before Livy was born.

The majority of the Romans were surrounded but the last line of the legions were fighting it out with the Carthaginian infantry and cavalry. The Consul that died lost his life here, sending away his young aide s he bled on a rock behind the lines. The young aide was Scipio Africanus, who would ultimately defeat Hannibal at Zama. Most depictions get it wrong by having the cav complete the encirclement , which was completely done by infantry.

@@craigw6923 wtf dude... Yes Hannibal was a beast but Livy was born around the 60's BC and Polybius was born over 100 years earlier... No way the latter copied the former. Furthermore, since Polybius was Greek Livy had to adapt Polybius' work to a more "Roman" narrative.

Alexander was better than Hannibal, Hannibal been said himself that Alexander was the greatest general of all time. Alexander also never lost a battle, meanwhile Hannibal lost his war.

@@VntiHero That's idiotic. Alexander had every advantage except Numbers and if the Persian Emperor hadn't been a field mouse in a man's body the Persian Calvary would have succeeded in Killing Alexander the average. His troops spoke his language. Good old Alex couldn't have held a multi lingual and national force together for as long as Hannibal did, especially as, unlike Hannibal, Alex had a loyal supportive base in his home country. Hannibal had every disadvantage but won every battle he fought. He was not there at Zama. Hannibal gave Rome its greatest land and greatest sea defeats in all its years of history. You can't compare the two because Hannibal would have crushed Alex's army in a day.

@@Rathallan Hannibal even said himself that Alexander was the greatest ever, and Darius was known to have won 1 on 1 duels before but still fled to Alexander’s superiority. Hannibal knew himself he couldn’t attack Rome and didn’t. And unlike Hannibal, Alexander the Great never even lost a battle, but Hannibal LOST his WAR! Did you really just say Hannibal was not at Zama?!?! That’s why he left Italy to confront Scipio Africanus, and LOST at Zama, you are crazy if you believe Hannibal wasn’t at Zama 😂Scipio beat Hannibal and lost the 2nd Punic war. Hannibal even Said Alexander was the greatest. You really must be crazy if you think Hannibal wasn’t at Zama 🤣 Hannibal lost his WAR, Alexander never even lost a single battle!

@@VntiHero like I said, you are an idiot. They say Hannibal was at Zama but every battle before this Hannibal was leading his men from within the ranks, he scouted, planned and executed amazing tactics and split decisions. Have you even read about Zama, doesn't it strike you as odd? Even Polybius (which I am rereading again) finds it odd enough to mention. Darius ran from the battles, this wasn't Darius the 1st. The Persian calvary scythed through the companions and wounded Alex but because their emperor retreated they also had to retreat. Did you bother to read about the Persian cavalry and their role in this. If they had stayed and wiped out Alex the average they'd have been killed by Darius. Since he fled, his army had to withdraw. It was a complex obligation. It was also this obligation that made them disgusted with the system. They killed Darius and turned the empire over to Alex. Had there been a better leader Alex and his men would have been fertilizer and forgotten. Rightly so too. Hannibal looked up to the example of a General who could campaign like Alexander did. He ended up exceeding Alexander. The fact is that Roman's crushed the phalanx system, it lacked maneuverability and adaptability. The Romans had 10 times the population, vast resources, multiple armies, many bases. Hannibal couldn't even get support from Carthage because of short sighted political opposition. Yet here he was, conquered Spanish Iberian tribes, fought his way across the alps in snow season, repelling and counter ambushing. Gets across with only half his army, still beats an army. Restores his own and proceeds to rampage across the Roman army including the defeat of an 80000 man legionary army with half the number in ground of the enemies choosing, ambushing them in an open field and annihilating it. Alexander did nothing close to that. Hannibal survived in those hostile conditions beating one army after another. Often outmaneuvering 3 armies. Alexander did not do that either. Now, there was a point where Hannibal could have taken Rome. It was much weaker than he knew after Cannae and he later admitted to this being his biggest mistake. Hannibal also had higher quality enemies. Have you read anything about the Persian empire, it's satraps equipped their troops according to their nations style. You had segments with nothing but slings, or spears , some mounted, some not, some had camels. There were so many fighting styles and languages that the Persian armies were some of the most ineffective in history. GREAT at administrationand logistics, fair rulers but hopelessly poor armies. Only the core Persian cavalry and elephant units were superior to the Macedonian. You need to truly read the history, formation and organization of these empires to understand the reality. All of Alexander's invasions occurred after Civil wars too. Alexander had every advantage but Numbers. Given the same situation Hannibal would have conquered the world I think. The sheer amount of tactics he used was unparalleled. Truly read the accounts of the man and his army.

@@Rathallan Hannibal couldn’t conquer the world, he got his ass kicked by Scipio! Hahahaha history denier 🤣

The romans army were also multi-ethnic. They had allied gaulic tribes. They also had etruscans and people from all over. They just gave everybody citizenship so their ethnicity was overshadowed.

it's no great feat to get a band of people who all share a common enemy to all hate that common enemy. winning the battles was impressive, not getting the soldiers to the battle.

@Harry Paul and on top of that, to hold them in line during those chaotic battles, if those people were a mob, they would have broken after first few impacts of roman meatgrinder that was triplex acies roman line at cannae wrecked havoc at first, drawing fear into its enemies bones, it is outstanding that Hannibal turned that on its head, in just few hours Romans were those in fear, imagine 40k people or so, packed together, their strength failing while they wait for inevitable death, terrifying

@Harry Paul yea yea yea, every empire ever has done that, nothing unique about it. No of you simps salivate over Ceasar's "multi-cultural progressivism" when he was doing the same shit in gaul about 100 years later, they just say 'wow he was a master strategist'. I have never heard a simp talk about the woke-progressiveness of Alexander's army either. But yet, when it's an African, all the 'totes woke' simps, who are totally not racist at all, have to ensure everyone hears them talk about how woke hannibal must have been. What could the difference be i wonder?

Hannibal and the phoenicians had a different approach to war and winning battles than the romans did. The Phoenicians conquered a people they made them pledge a portion of the populace to join in any war effort the phoenicians had going. The romans on the other hand put taxation amongst other things on the populace and requested or conscripted soldiers. There's a video about it on invicta or kings and generals channel. I can't remember which 1 though

He is a great general in the Level of kings , What he done to rommans with a single army and without reinforcements or any help or supplies from carthage for 15 years and in their country is truly astonishing , Hannibal Diserves a High Budget Serie made by HBO on him , Game of thrones would be nothing compared to it

@@cheriefsadeksadek2108 why did he lose to Scipio tho? Was it a kind of a Waterloo moment

@@fredbarker9201 Cause Scipio was a good general, had more troops, and the superior african cavalry joined the romans.

@@fredbarker9201 he studied hannibal past battle achivement, and he is also there at cannae where it happens, so he is prepared before hand

@@cheriefsadeksadek2108 the can't/won't do it, because he's not European .

@@Gwynnbleid95, they did use the Carthaginian fleet, but at this point the navy would need another Hasdrubal to be any effective against the Roman ships

@@Gwynnbleid95, it was quiet hard for Carthage to give any more support to Hannibal by this point considering that their fleet had been destroyed again while raiding Sicily as a preliminary to invading it, Carthage could have used its fleet instead for defending the holdings in Spain which were more important to Hannibal than Tunisia itself. One of the main reasons Hannibal was forced to go back to North Africa was that New Carthage was taken by Scipio in Spain

The Libyan infantry were a throwback to Macedonian phalanx formations but more mobile and able to sprint with spears in hand. This is why the Romans were trapped, their opponents had long spears that hemmed them in.

Yep, it's true if you think about it :)

@@HistoryMarche indeed but we have to give credit to the carthagenian line because they stick to the plan perfecly

@@davidchicoine6949 Indeed. One thing Hannibal had going for him, is that his troops were, on average, more experienced and more disciplined. And this played a huge part, because basically his officers and troops "knew what they were doing", more so than the Romans.

@@HistoryMarche whelp there is another guy that knew his men as good as Hannibal and you already did his civil war

@@HistoryMarche indeed experience army in antiquity was more preferable than numbers like alexander macedonian army or later veteran roman legions ! Anyway good job historymarche again 😀

Chooses battlefield to avoid envelopment: *Most famous envelopment in history*

Chose the battlefield to avoid any ambushes: "Hidden units my lord, treacherously meant to ambush us"

If only ceasar is there hannibal would be crushed if ceasar would have been the one leading this massive army

@@funfacttrivias2121 how so? Hannibal was a great commander in his own right, only thing that he had an advantage over the Romans was his Calvary. He completely crushed them with a smaller force and in foreign terrain.

@@waynewayne8419 well so does ceasar when he clash with pompey and in battle of munda hes enemies outnumber him and hes fighting uphill imagine that yet he able to win those battle surely luck is a great plus but his skill too made it possible try watching those engagement and your mouth will open in awe of ceasars manuevers and by the way in this kind of face to face clash i always find that cavalry played a great role in turning the tide of battle thier mobility enable them to flank or encircle static infantries in battle

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RIP the Romans😂 If time travel gets invented in the future, I’d love to meet Hannibal.

More episodes still to come.

Wow, that is some kind feedback. Thank you so much.

@Salim Mosbahi hahahaha yes

@Salim Mosbahi Are you sure, because I thought the term "Numidians" referred to North Africans at that time? BTW Born in Tripoli Libya here!

Nice

never got to the sacking part tho

@@kristiansen1012 yeah, sadly 😭

I think you truly know how great of a General Hannibal Is , His army and Glorious battles are bigger then some kings , To bad there isn't a big Budget Serie by HBO made on him and his journey

Hope you enjoy it!

Me too

HistoryMarche thanks It was well worth the wait. Can’t wait for the next one.

Me too hehe

same buddy me too , i was like wtf has the historymarche guy fallen ill or something , why isn't he uploading the video :(

Thank you sir.

My body is ready...

I want to like but it's at 69.

Hehe

@@HistoryMarche damn, first time a youtuber like my comment, u made my night 🥺❤️

@@gmdudafanclub5228 Cheers mate :)

@@HistoryMarche can u make a video about the fall of tyre against the babyloniens it’s really an interesting topic, since no one is talking about it, and it’s just wonderful how the city held for 5 years and also the fight between queen Didon and her brother for the title of king/queen of the city which resulted in a WOMEN creating colonialism and founding the first colony in history, Carthage

@@gmdudafanclub5228 Hm, quite possible yes. Though I really need a rest first haha.

Thank you very much for turning off adblock! And thanks for watching.

Does that actually help? I do the code thingies to support, I liked the audiobooks one

​@@IinferusS To some extent yes it does help. I'm not an expert on this topic but I'll try to explain what I know.. If you turnoff your Adblock and watch the full Ads without skipping them (or watch more than 5 seconds) it generates what's called an "Ad Impression" which is a fancy word for "someone watched X Ad". This thing helps the channel a bit by generating profit and at the same time lets the algorithm know that, this channel has viewers that are watching a lot of Ads, which makes the "algo" put even more Ads on the channel. They are better ways though, like purchasing merch or supporting them through Patreon. that being said the YT algo changes from time to time, so what works now might be useless later. But I think that your way of doing the codes also helps a lot in driving the channel forward by attracting more sponsors. Sorry for the long post, and you're welcome to correct me if I'm wrong.

Fair enough! My apologies for the delay.

@@HistoryMarche I have to admit, after all the wait seeing this episode today was really great! I have seen this battle shown many times over, but never with such detail. Also the fact that it's climax of a great series that showed the situation much deeper than I was previously aware of made this much better. I really like how you went for dots representing smaller size of unit, it enabled you to show the compression and mortal situation of Romans in later stage of the battle. And to think that each such dot represents hundreds of human lives with dreams, hopes and possible future... Thank you for making this series, it really is great no matter how much we had to wait for this episode :)

@@HistoryMarche - I remember last year you said Hannibal would be back in August. You didnt say WHICH August. :) lol. I forgive you.

This is better than any Netflix show

At the time it was Roman Republic, not empire, their strength was having solid allies while unfortunately for Hannibal Carthaginian government hesitated and never sent reinforcements. In the end Hannibal outplayed the bejesus out of Rome, but fear defeated him.

Cloudcuckoorocket let’s wait to see the next parts and we will conclude after

2 months later, im hooked in this series, its 6 am RN and i havent slept all night cause i got addicted to the 2nd punic war series. Now i've seen this masterpiece and i cant find the following episodes, are they still coming out or is the series ended?

Green Tuga still coming, lot of episodes scheduled. Patience until that

The scale of hate was total

Hey Nathan, thanks a bunch for your kind words. Yep, the war goes on, though still quite a few episodes before Zama.

Wow, that's very kind of you. Thanks a lot man! And thanks for turning off adblock, it truly helps!

Thank you sir, that's very kind of you.

Carthage is no match to Rome at all, It was the Barca family alone who raised Carthage's strength to almost the same level as Rome for a short period of time. If Carthaginians back then have half the fighting spirit of the Romans, they could definitely defeat Rome. Unfortunately, they did not, so they were swept into the dusts of history.

Thank you sir, much appreciated!

Hear hear

He probably did know. However, you can't just get victory after victory if you don't get reinforcement and support from your country.

@@davidcervantes9336 Especially when you are up against the strongest superpower of the time: the mortherfucking eternal city herself.

The same mistake as Pyrrhus, two generations before Hannibal.

@@davidcervantes9336 to be fair he got reinforcements from Iberia under command of one of his brothers, but he was defeated somewhere north of Italy. Had they converged history might be different today

@@monadsingleton9324 What could Phyrrus do to change the outcome? He literally won two battles and Rome still sent another army. He, however, didn't have the resources to go beyond one single defeat.

Hehe, thanks a lot man!

You perfectly explained why I don't watch TV anymore