Articles tagged with Rome

Trebia Trasimene Cannae and Zama

What are the four major Battles of the Second Punic War? If you said, "Trebia, Trasimene, Cannae, and Zama", you are correct! Prologue In 218 BC, Carthaginian General Hannibal, with an army of 40,000 and more than 30 war elephants, crossed the Pyrenees Mountains, then crossed the Rhone River …