His fabulous Berber cavalry provided Hannibal “superiority” (Livy 2006, 47)
battle. dos The guy allied having Celtic tribes in the south Gaul (France) and introduced from the Alps within the 218 BCE. He occupied Italy having twenty-six,100000 soldiers. An excellent tactician, the guy trapped Roman legions for the a dangerous double envelopment at the Cannae during the 216 BCE. Livy analyzed that Romans sustained 45,500 infantry and you may dos,700 cavalry fatalities (Livy 2006, 118), but army historians calculate around 62,100 Roman and 6,100000 Carthaginian losings (Dupuy and you may Dupuy 1977, 66). (more…)