Hannibal vs Rome: Hannibal's Greatest Victory
The Ancients
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Hannibal and the Roman Army on the Flat Plains
By instinct Roman armies like to fight on the flat and on the plains as well because their infantry is line infantry, it's heavy infantry. With an army of 80 000 men you need a lot of plain to fit them on. So they go... they know they outnumber Hannibal quite substantially, not quite two to one but nearly there. They think that this is a nice open flat place. No tricksy valleys, no hobbled at lambish points. It's going to be a nice straight, fair fight.
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