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2:16 Why Hannibal Won Cannae but Didn't Win the War
2:07 The Battle Map That Explains Cannae
2:02 The Cavalry Move That Closed the Trap at Cannae
20:06 Hannibal's Trap at Cannae: How Rome Lost an Army in One Day
17:33 Saratoga Explained: How Burgoyne's Army Was Trapped in 1777
2:17 Was Peggy Shippen Part of Benedict Arnold's Treason?
Shorts
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Alexander Hamilton Stormed Yorktown Redoubt 10 at Night
De Grasse's Fleet Closed the Chesapeake and Trapped Cornwallis
Cornwallis Was Absent When His Army Surrendered at Yorktown
Washington Built Brick Ovens to Hide the March to Yorktown
How Many Romans Died at Cannae? The Sources Disagree
What Rome's Commanders Could See—and What They Couldn't
Why Hannibal Let His Center Bend Backward
The Roman Army Walked Into Hannibal's Trap at Cannae
Battle of Trafalgar
Nelson broke the conventions of naval warfare by driving two columns straight into the Franco-Spanish line. Britain lost no ships; the combined fleet…
Battle of Agincourt
A sick, outnumbered English army trapped in northern France chose a narrow, muddy field between two woods. French armoured knights advanced into it…
The Charge of the Light Brigade
A vague written order, a rushed messenger and two feuding cavalry commanders sent the British Light Brigade charging down a valley lined with Russian…
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Battles, commanders and the turning-point decisions behind them, filed with the facts that mattered and the documentaries that tell the story.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
A vague written order, a rushed messenger and two feuding cavalry commanders sent the British Light Brigade charging down a valley lined with Russian guns.
The D-Day weather call
With a storm battering the Channel, Eisenhower had to decide whether to launch the invasion on a forecast of a brief break, or wait weeks for the next suitable tides.
D-Day: Operation Overlord
Allied forces landed on five Normandy beaches after a night of airborne drops. By nightfall more than 150,000 troops were ashore and the liberation of Western Europe had…
Hannibal Barca
He crossed the Alps with an army and elephants, won some of the most complete victories in military history in Italy, and still lost the war.
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