Scipio’s 8,000 Survivors WIPED OUT 20,000 Iberian Warriors at the Battle of Baecula скачать в хорошем качестве

Scipio’s 8,000 Survivors WIPED OUT 20,000 Iberian Warriors at the Battle of Baecula

In the spring of two hundred eight BC, a twenty-five-year-old Roman commander with eight thousand exhausted, half-starved soldiers faced twenty thousand Iberian warriors backed by Carthage's finest generals. Six months earlier, this same Roman had nearly died in a mutiny. Now he was about to rewrite the rules of ancient warfare. Think about those numbers for a second. Eight thousand against twenty thousand. That's a two-point-five-to-one disadvantage. The survivors of mutiny, disease, and Rome's darkest hour in Spain, facing an enemy that had never lost on Iberian soil. Yet by the end of this video, you'll understand how Publius Cornelius Scipio achieved what Roman generals twice his age said was impossible. I'm about to reveal three things that will change how you see ancient warfare forever. First, the terrain trap that turned Hasdrubal's defensive advantage into a killing field. Second, why Carthage's elite African veterans fled without engaging Rome's exhausted legionaries. And third, the pursuit decision that saved or doomed the Roman Republic. SOURCES LINK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_... https://grokipedia.com/page/Battle_of... https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/...