The Battle of Cannae between Hannibal's army and the Romans was?

Question

A. a great victory for the Roman legions.
B. a great defeat for the Roman legions.
C. the end of the First Punic War.
D. the end of the Second Punic War.

Answer 1

B, it was a huge defeat for the Romans and nearly allowed Hannibal to win the war.

Answer 2

B. Hannibal defeated the numerically superior Romans by giving ground in the middle of the battle field, creating a concave. Then he sent his flanking cavalry around to close the circle. The act of surrounding the Romans cause 2 effects: 1) it instilled panic; and 2) it prevented the Romans from using the numerical superiority since those trapped in the middle had no access to the front lines. The Battle of Cannae is a classic battle of annihilation.

Answer 3

Hannibal's greatest victory occurred at Cannae. There, with a substantially smaller force, Hannibal encircled the Roman troops and used his cavalry to crush the Roman infantry. He hamstrung those who fled so he could later return to finish the job. Of 70,000 Roman troops at Cannae, less than 2000 survived. In two years, Hannibal had defeated the equivalent of 8 consular armies. After Cannae, Capua and other smaller Italian cities defected to Hannibal's side.
teh answer is B

Answer 4

B. it was the first recoreded incident of the use of the double envelopment manouevure to defeat an enemy.

However, this great defeat of the Romans were a lesson they learnt from & avoided in the future, thereby depriving Hannibal of further crushing victories after this battle.

Answer 5

B. That is quite an understatement; Of the seventy thousand Roman troops who started the battle, only about ten thousand survived.