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| | Battle of Cannae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Battle of Cannae, August 2, 216 BC, was a significant battle of the Second Punic War. |
 | | Although the Carthaginian army under Hannibal destroyed a numerically superior Roman army under the consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro near the town of Cannae in Apulia (SE Italy), it failed to decide the outcome of the war in the favour of Carthage. |
 | | Polybius claims that 50,000-60,000 Romans died—including Lucius Aemilius Paullus, one of the two consul commanders, as well as the two consuls for the preceding year—10,000 were captured, and 16,000 escaped (among them the future Scipio Africanus Major). |
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