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Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 3, chapter 107
Canusium (Italy) (search for this): book 3, chapter 107
Hannibal Occupies Cannae
Thus through all that winter and spring the two
Autumn, B. C. 216.
armies remained encamped facing each other.
But when the season for the new harvest
was come, Hannibal began to move from the
camp at Geronium; and making up his mind that it would
be to his advantage to force the enemy by any possible
means to give him battle, he occupied the citadel of a town
called Cannae, into which the corn and other supplies from
the district round Canusium were collected by the Romans,
and conveyed thence to the camp as occasion required.
The town itself, indeed, had been reduced to ruins the year
before: but the capture of its citadel and the material of war
contained in it, caused great commotion in the Roman army;
for it was not only the loss of the place and the stores in it
that distressed them, but the fact also that it commanded the
surrounding district. They therefore sent frequent messages
to Rome asking for instructions: for if they approached the
enemy they wo
Cannae (Italy) (search for this): book 3, chapter 107
Hannibal Occupies Cannae
Thus through all that winter and spring the two
Autumn, B. C. 216.
armies remained encamped facing each other.
But when the season for the new harvest
was come, Hannibal began to move from the
camp at Geronium; and making up his mind that it would
be to his advantage to force the enemy by any possible
means to give him battle, he occupied the citadel of a town
called Cannae, into which the corn and other supplies from
the district round Canusium were collected by the Romans,
and conveyed thence to the camp as occasion required.
The town itself, indeed, had been reduced to ruins the year
before: but the capture of its citadel and the material of war
contained in it, caused great commotion in the Roman army;
for it was not only the loss of the place and the stores in it
that distressed them, but the fact also that it commanded the
surrounding district. They therefore sent frequent messages
to Rome asking for instructions: for if they approached the
enemy they wo
216 BC (search for this): book 3, chapter 107
Hannibal Occupies Cannae
Thus through all that winter and spring the two
Autumn, B. C. 216.
armies remained encamped facing each other.
But when the season for the new harvest
was come, Hannibal began to move from the
camp at Geronium; and making up his mind that it would
be to his advantage to force the enemy by any possible
means to give him battle, he occupied the citadel of a town
called Cannae, into which the corn and other supplies from
the district round Canusium were collected by the Romans,
and conveyed thence to the camp as occasion required.
The town itself, indeed, had been reduced to ruins the year
before: but the capture of its citadel and the material of war
contained in it, caused great commotion in the Roman army;
for it was not only the loss of the place and the stores in it
that distressed them, but the fact also that it commanded the
surrounding district. They therefore sent frequent messages
to Rome asking for instructions: for if they approached the
enemy they w