11-16-2007, 12:39 AM
Quote:Although Xanthippus strategy and Hannibal's you mention do both involve encompassing the enemy, Bagradas and Cannae are rather different. I see Cannae as an improvement on Hannibal's father's battle against the Mercenaries in the Truceless War.
The battle you are referring to is the "Saw" I assume.
I think at Bagradas-1 the mercenaries fulfilled the role of the center at Cannae, whether planned or not. The fear of elephants more that the fact that they "despised" the mercenaries would have served to draw the romans into envelopment.
Had the carthaginians used anything like these tactics prior to Bagradas?
Paul M. Bardunias
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