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Event

Second Punic War (218-201 BCE)

Hannibal invades Italy and wins Trasimene and Cannae but Rome outlasts him through manpower reserves and allied loyalty; ends Carthaginian great-power status.

Greco-Roman

Event Details

  • Date: 218 BCE-201 BCE
  • Type: interstate-war
  • Civilizations: greco-roman

Description

Hannibal invades Italy and wins Trasimene and Cannae but Rome outlasts him through manpower reserves and allied loyalty; ends Carthaginian great-power status.

Quantitative facts and their sourcing

  • Dates spring 218 - 201 BCE; outcome: Roman victory (Wikipedia infobox).
  • War-level casualty total not extracted; for the Cannae battle see Battle of Cannae (216 BCE) (primary-source figure).

Confidence

medium (dates/outcome); casualties NOT quantified at war level. Numbers marked "Wikipedia-compiled (stub)" come from a secondary aggregator and must be upgraded to page-level scholarly citations before any Official use.

Citations

  • lazenby1978-hannibals-war [formal] J. F. Lazenby (1978). Hannibal's War: A Military History of the Second Punic War. Aris & Phillips. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2722870W. Verified 2026-10-11 (Open Library record found; edition exists, page-level not checked).
  • goldsworthy2000-fall-of-carthage [formal] Adrian Goldsworthy (2000). The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146 BC. Cassell. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8264208W. Verified 2026-10-11 (Open Library record found; edition exists, page-level not checked).
  • polybius-histories-3 [formal] Polybius (-150). Polybius, Histories, Book 3 (Perseus Digital Library, Paton transl.). Perseus Digital Library (Tufts). https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0234:book=3:chapter=117. Verified 2026-10-11 (resolves).
  • wp-second-punic-war [STUB (secondary aggregator)] Wikipedia contributors (2026). Second Punic War (Wikipedia; secondary aggregator, stub-grade). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Punic_War. Verified 2026-10-11 (resolves).

Review status

SOFT draft. Not Official. Needs editor review of CAD tags (estimated) and page-level citation upgrade.

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interstate war · 218 BCE-201 BCE

Second Punic War (218-201 BCE)

Hannibal invades Italy and wins Trasimene and Cannae but Rome outlasts him through manpower reserves and allied loyalty; ends Carthaginian great-power status.

Evidence: Formal source Draft estimate

What the record says

  • Unverified (Wikipedia-compiled) Dates spring 218 - 201 BCE; outcome: Roman victory (Wikipedia infobox).
  • Note War-level casualty total not extracted; for the Cannae battle see event-battle-cannae-216bce (primary-source figure).

Confidence. medium (dates/outcome); casualties NOT quantified at war level.

Where it sits

Sources and evidence

No page-level citation is claimed for any source. Figures marked unverified come from a Wikipedia aggregator and are not for Official use.

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