12-22-2010, 08:34 AM
December 18, 218 BC: Battle of the Trebia (or Trebbia), the first major battle of the Second Punic War. Hannibal defeated the Roman army under consul Tiberius Sempronius Longus, who managed to inflict casulaties with his centre of trained heavy infantry, while his untrained troops and allies were defeated by the Carthaginians.
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
