The 2nd Punic War in 3 Battles: Cannae, Rome's Iconic Defeat 

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Wow, this content blows me away. Great historiography on display.

An excellent presentation, & the description of the crushing effect killing the ability to fight was supurb.

This is fantastically researched and presented, great job.

Well put together and explained, appreciate the work you put into this, thanks.

Thankyou once again for your well researched, well presented breakdown of this battle and the structures behind it. You have no equal in your work that I am aware of.

This is a repost from my other channel, im just going to post my stuff here from now on.

I started a History channel video about Cannae and I could only watch about 15 seconds. “Hannibal the Annihilator”!!!! No thank you. This is a much better presentation. Appreciate your work

Finally someone mentions the discontinuous nature of pre-gunpowder combat. Love your explanation of the closing stages of the battle. Awesome video.

Wonderful content. I would like to suggest your future episodes should include the rest of South Pacific campaigns, the reading of the Haynes maintenance manual for the Mad Max Interceptor and the phone book for a major city in Australia or New Zealand.

Awesome presentation again

wow, such a great video 👍🏼

I think a lot has to be said for Romes dogged determination, as a reason for why they were not defeated after Cannae. A lot of powers back in that day would have come to terms after loosing what amounted to over 10% of their fighting age population. The culture of honour layed down by the mos maiorum was as powerful as their heavy infantry when it came to their early victories over adversity. Great video dude!

Excellent video.

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Interesting synopsis, the defeat of a large Roman army by constraining their maneuvering ability makes perfect sense. On Varro vs Paullus disagreement, your point is well taken. Given the paucity of ancient sources, the bias inherent in these 'histories" is not often discussed. Roman politics was a cutthroat affair, and Varro, like Paullus, progressed up the cursus honorum, to get their consular positions. Irrespective of their class, both were qualified to lead and army.

I really felt the terror of the Romans during that discussion of compression and chaos!

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Need more ancient history

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Great job, and great content! How/Why, in your opinion, did the campaign fail after so many fantastic victories accomplished by Hannibal Barca?

I’m only finding 2 battles when I look for the series Punic war in 3 battles. :( it’s a good series, so if anyone can point me to the third one, I’d be grateful.

Came for the history, came again riding bareback.

One author describes Cannae this way: Before Cannae, Rome went to battle; after Cannae, Rome went to war.

here from tiktok lol, how is this channel not huge, have you thought about teaming up with the animated history channels.

wait, where's the last battle?

i think there's a mix up with Hasdrubal son of Hamilcar and Hasdrubal his son-in-law. After Hamilcar's death his son-in-law took the leadership. am i wrong?

This telling of the tale is very different from one I just heard three or four days ago by Lindy beige. It doesn't seem to involve the Romans having to cross the river. I know the involvement of the river is disputed but that's how I've mostly heard this told.

You can find something there with a metal detector .

I'm not sure that just saying that the writer of the story had a reason to favor one side is truly evidence that he did so.

About half way into this "chapter" the discussion talks about Cannae but the video shows a map of Agincourt.. Needless to say they aren't the same and were separated in time by about 1640 years and place by possibly 500 to 600 miles and involved two countries that didn't exist when the battle of Cannae was fought, not to mention the respective types of armies, tactics and strategies.. Other than that this is a very good account, it would have been better with accurate maps as Cannae is considered a classic exercise in military brilliance where the side that should have won was crushed and slaughtered in a spectacular defeat which is still studied in military academies..

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