The Battle of Cannae: Rome's greatest defeat
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Published 2019-08-29
The Battle of Cannae was the greatest victory by possibly the greatest ever general. Few engagements were ever so one-sided in result, and on a scale that staggers the imagination.
I made this while visiting Sweden for a wedding, and had to shoot it on my old little camera, and edit it away from the internet on my laptop, so it doesn't quite fit the usual Lindybeige house style. When I uploaded it, it took fourteen hours.
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All Comments (21)
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My boy loyd is literally in the middle of doing his laundry and decides to speak for over an hour on the battle of cannae complete with names and dates. Bless you mr beige
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50,000-70,000 Romans to 6,000 Carthaginians or what Total War would call a close victory
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Does he just walk through his house, stop at a random spot and say, “damn I need to deliver a full lecture, RIGHT NOW”
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A reminder that most Youtubers can't speak for 5 seconds without doing a jump cut.
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The question Hannibal had wasn't "Should I?", it was "Cannae?"
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Thank you Lindybeige, for affirming that Cannae was a decisive British victory.
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"Steady lads, steady lads" - Possibly Hannibal.
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"They had to make sure the sack didn't burst prematurely" 4 of every 5 ancient armies suffer from premature sack burstage
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You put this guy in front of a terrible camera with mediocre audio and he still manages to entertain you for 76 minutes straight.
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2:30 For crossing the alps, those large mammals really were irrelephant.
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Paulus: "Cut off his army, let it wither and die. Great plan!" Paulus, 2000+ years later: "Damn the irony!"
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I’m in my 60th year, rarely have I found such engaging and informative talks... wish I’d had teachers like this. Might have done something more interesting with my life. Lol
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If only there was a graphic novel I could read about this.
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"They've got a pair of trousers on, because they're barbarians" Come to think of it, we've never seen Lloyd below the belt on this style of video...
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"Even if this Hannibal guy does some clever ambushing and stuffs he won't be able to win the battle because we would just overwhelm him" Soviet Rome
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2.1%... Imagine America losing 6-ish million people in a day. For context, that’s around 5 times the number of people actually in the armed forces.
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Why do I need "The Great Courses Plus" if I can have over an hour of unfiltered Lindyness.
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If history teaches us anything, it's to never send a guy called Paullus into battle, they always get surrounded. Paullus at Cannae and Paulus at Stalingrad.
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I had to give a 7 minute talk in college 15 years ago on a subject of our choice. Some chose a sports hero, some fitness and I chose the battle of Cannae. I used a flip chart and different coloured shapes to illustrate the battle and went on for an embarrassing 14 minutes. When the assessor mentioned it she said I was so into it and really getting it across that she let me go on. Hannibal is my favourite historical figure. Thanks, Jennifer this.
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Last night I've had dreams full of ancient Greeks and Romans and people battling in Cannae. When I woke up, I realized I fell asleep with the PC on and YT algorithms brought me to Lindybeige, going through his videos one after another. I now realized I've unlocked a superpower. I can dream about anything I want as long as Lindybeige is narrating them! Possibilities are literally limitless! :D
