Cannae Beadu

Cannae Beadu wæs micel feoht þære Oðran Puniscan Gūþe, which took place on 2. Wēodmōnaþe in þæm geare 216 beforan Crīstes acennesse nēah Cannae tūn se is in Apulialande in þæm sūþēastdǣl Italie.

On þissum wælfelde hæfde Cartainan here under Hannibal micel sige ofer herigum þære Romaniscan Cynewīsan oððæt ðe þā Rōmware wæron manigfealde and Hannibales rincgetæl mismicel. Þærbe fremmede Hannibal mǣrþe and man hycgþ þe þæs dæges wæl wæs ān þāra mæstena wigweorcena in eallum þe ealda bēc teallaþ of wigcræft. Þa hycþ man þæs wælgetæl, hē wæs Rōmbyrig grimsta wighryre æfter Arausio Beadwe.

Lucius Aemilus Paullus, ealdor, and Gaius Terentius Varro wæron heretogan þāra Rōmwara.

Rōmware brōhton nīw fyrd þæm felde æfter hiere hryre æt Trebia in 218 wintru beforan Cristes tōcyme and æt Trasimene in þæm niehstan geare, and hie ceas to bringenne Hannibal to garmittunge æt Cannae.

Bēadu

Se ende þæs Rēmiscan here

In Cannae cwom Rēmisc þrēat, mid gefylce þe wæs ymbe 86,000 menn, Rōmware and geþoftas. Þā Rōmware sætted hiera heofigan feðan in dēoprum setnunge þon wæron hie gewuna.

Þær fremmode Hannibal hinderhōce þære twafealdan bewindunge. In hringe fang he Rōmceastre þrēat and hie slog. Swīðe gesæled Hannibal þe he þone Rēmisce here adiglede.

Æfter þisne wæl æt Cannae, Capua and manig mǣre burgrīce on Eotolwarum forswicoden of þære Rōmcynewīsan and cleofod to Cartaine.

Bēc

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Ūtwearda hlencas

• The Battle of Cannae at www.unrv.com
• The Battle of Cannae at Roman-empire.net
• Cannae - a treatise by General Fieldmarshal Count Alfred von Schlieffen
• Battle At Cannae Mommsen History of Rome. Book 03 From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States. Page 50