What could go wrong?

Possibly the greatest triumph over the white devil before the Haitian revolution

What could pawssibly go wrong?
T. Gaius Terentius Bubsy

>>1496559

>all the layers of irony or ignorance in this post have given me leukaemia


>white devil
Black Haitians who ruled after they gained independence weren't so great, devilish you might say.

>triumph
They had to pay France to not invade them, for about a century. The USA went to war over paying the Barbary States far less than this; Haiti had no capacity to prevent being shaken down.

>greatest ever

Ottomans? Mongols?

>>1496559
Being a left-tard doesn't make you any better than the /pol/ right-tards. Please stop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae#Armies

>The Carthaginian army was a combination of warriors from numerous regions, and may have numbered between 40,000 and 50,000. Along with the core of an estimated 8,000 Libyans, there were 8,000 Iberians, 16,000 Gauls (8,000 were left at camp the day of battle) and around 5,500 Gaetulian infantry. Hannibal's cavalry also came from diverse backgrounds. He commanded 4,000 Numidian, 2,000 Iberian, 4,000 Gallic and 450 Liby-Phoenician cavalry. Finally, Hannibal had around 8,000 skirmishers consisting of Balearic slingers and mixed nationality spearmen.

>IBERIA
>GAUL
>WHITE
>CELTS

>>1496785
...and in case you're really lost and on the wrong board completely:

IBERIA = SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
GAUL = FRANCE

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>>1496544
>What could go wrong?

>...as Polybius described: "After thus drawing up his whole army in a straight line, he took the central companies of Hispanics and Celts and advanced with them, keeping the rest of them in contact with these companies, but gradually falling off, so as to produce a crescent-shaped formation, the line of the flanking companies growing thinner as it was prolonged, his object being to employ the Africans as a reserve force and to begin the action with the Hispanics and Celts."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae#Battle

>>1496791
A lot of his gauls were from northern Italy tho. There's a reason Rome went full genocide & colonization after the second punic war.

>>1496592
>>1496785
>Falling for bait this easily

Lurk moar

>what could go wrong?

Hannibal could squander his victory and give the Romans enough time to recover and implement the Fabian strategy

>>1496839
It's not like he had a choice, he couldn't attack Rome without pinning himself between the anvil (Rome's walls) and the hammer (Marcellus's army).
His whole plan relied on Rome's allies defecting and the city surrendering once suffering a few defeats. Neither happened (well the greeks rebelled but the spine of the alliance, the fellow italic tribes, didn't), so from a strategic point of view his plan was a complete failure.

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>>1496544