Five Minute Battle Narratives: Cannae 216 BC

[rakcool100]

Hannibal brother let the cavalry

[andrewajt62]

Wasn't Hannibal's brother with the cavalry?

[brunt3200]

@andrewajt62 No, Hannible and his brother fought together during this battle. I also believe they fought together during all battles where they were both present, I might be wrong though.

[chushu123]

Can you do a five minutes narratives on battle of Chaeronia?

[sniperdude5236]

question: what was the total number of soldiers serving in the roman army, calvary, navy, and milita? just a rough guess would do

[VictumRoManius]

@sniperdude5236 80000 Romans vs 40000 Carthaginians. I am not sure, but i beleive the Carthaginians had 11000 Cavalry.

[armandorivas82]

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[DinoHunter56]

Hey. Where do you get those blocks that represent units? I really want those

[Halohalo497EdWarner]

can you do a battle narrative of Aljubarrota Battle? Greetings from portugal!

[MrSqurl333]

luckly for rome hannibal had trouble at home

[macaronisalad100]

@MrSqurl333 gengis khan understood this victory starts at home

[JohanTW]

Love these :) I'll give you five minutes to describe the battle of Sekigahara in Japan if you're into that. If you're just into European history then I'd like to know more about the battle of Hastings and also how the English held back the bigger Spanish armada before he 30 year war. The battle of Thermopylae would be cool too, but I guess there's not that much to it. Anyway, any one of these would be cool :)

[celticbattleaxe]

Hannibal was smart in using local enemies of the Romans, including the Iberians and the Gauls. He used the Gauls at Cannae in his center of the crescent formation, and they were driven back quickly, though the crescent became inverted and the Romans became quickly out-flanked. Hannibal was outnumbered at Cannae.

johnmb76 certainly knows his history!!

[Emanusmell]

what does he mean 3 t's and a c

[drnogood59]

@Emanusmell The battles that Hannibal won in Italy

[okbeti]

@Emanusmell : 3 T + C

Its a reference to the opening of the Second Punic War in which the first 3 Battles were

Ticninus, Trebia and Tresemene the C, is Cannae.

[WingWangification]

Could you please explain the battle of Gaugamela

[nbachmann]

Hannibal's African infantry was more than likely armed as heavy sword & javelin infantry not sarrissa wielding phalangites. There is no good evidence that the Carthagians ever armed themselves as in the style of the Hellenistic phalanx, rather the evidence suggests that they evolved from Hellenic hoplite regalia into something closer to the Spanish/Roman heavy swords men with javelins.

Indeed at Cannae their flank position makes no sense if they were clunky phalangites.

[ProductionShark]

any way he leaves spain with aproximatly 1000 elephants but only 37 survive through the alps

[TheDarkFrontier]

@ProductionShark

There's no way he would've had that many. The logistics would've been an absolute nightmare, and its highly unlikely they would've been able to get ahold of that many. He probably had between 50 - 80 in total.

[ProductionShark]

@TheDarkFrontier he acaured most of them from the remains of his farthers army his farther was building it since hannibal was 8

[TomKaren1994]

It's "cavalry" not "calvary."

[GaminHasard]

nice channel, a battle can be explained in 5 minutes, but a war can not.

[Solarian2495]

can u do stalingrad or do u focus on ancient?

[BottleCapsound]

"You give me five minutes, I'll explain any battle. "

how are we gonna beat obama ? lol

[BottleCapsound]

nice channel