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After Cannae, the Romans were very hesitant to confront Hannibal in pitched battle, preferring instead to weaken him by attrition, relying on their advantages of interior lines, supply, and manpower.
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* After the defeat at Cannae, Roman general, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, commands the remnants of the Roman army at Canusium and saves the city of Nola and southern Campania from occupation by Hannibal.
After the Battle of Cannae in the Second Punic War ( 216 BC ), Croton revolted from Rome, and Hannibal made it his winter quarters for three years ; it was not recaptured until 205 or 204 BCE.
After the Roman defeat at Cannae two Gauls and two Greeks were buried under the Forum Boarium, in a stone chamber " which had on a previous occasion BC also been polluted by human victims, a practice most repulsive to Roman feelings ".
After hearing of Rome's disastrous defeat at the hands of Hannibal at Cannae in 216 BC, Philip sent ambassadors to Hannibal's camp in Italy to negotiate an alliance.
After the victory of Cannae, Hannibal sent Mago with a detachment to Bruttium ( southern Italy ).
After immigration from the nearby Canne increased its population due to the destruction of Cannae by the Normans, Barletta lived its periods of greatest splendour under emperor Frederick II and then subsequently the Angevin kings of Naples.
After and Romans
After a victory over the Samnites and Lucanians near Paestum, 332 BC, he made a treaty with the Romans.
After a series of wars they were decisively beaten by the Romans in a battle near Mutina ( Modena ) and their territory became part of the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul.
After the victory, in 534, the Temple treasure of Jerusalem, looted by the Romans in 70 AD and taken to Carthage by the Vandals after their sack of Rome in 455, was brought to Constantinople and deposited for a time, perhaps in the Church of St. Polyeuctus, before being returned to Jerusalem in either the Church of the Resurrection or the New Church.
After defeats such as the Battle of Carrhae, the Romans learned the importance of large cavalry formations from the Parthians.
After a brief period the influence of the Romans started to emerge, and they protected the Oracle from a dangerous barbarian invasion in 109 BC and 105 BC.
After the capture of Constantinople ( also called the Eastern Roman Empire ) in 1453, the Ottoman sultan's also styled themselves Kaysar-i Rum ( Emperor of the Romans ) as they asserted themselves to be the heirs to the Roman empire by right of conquest.
After defeating the Syracusan and Carthaginian forces besieging Messana, the Romans marched south and in turn besieged Syracuse.
After a brief siege, with no Carthaginian help in sight, Syracuse made peace with the Romans.
After the Huns in the 4th century invaded the territories of the Gothic King Ermanaric, which at its peak stretched between the Danube and the Volga river, and from the Black to the Baltic Sea, thousands of Goths fled into the Balkans, defeating the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople and sacking Rome in 410, while thousands of Germans were crossing the Rhine.
After visiting the site of the disastrous Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, where 20, 000 Romans had been killed in 9 AD, and burying their remains, he launched a massive assault on the heartland of Arminius ' tribe, the Cherusci.
After Caesar's expeditions, the Romans began their real attempt to conquer Britain in 43 CE, at the behest of the Emperor Claudius.
After capturing the south of the island, the Romans turned their attention to what is now Wales.
After suppressing the Bar Kochba revolt, the Romans permitted a hereditary Rabbinical Patriarch ( from the House of Hillel ) to represent the Jews in dealings with the Romans.
After the battle, the Romans quickly bridged the river, thereby prompting the Helvetii to once again send an embassy, this time led by Divico, another figure whom Caesar links to the ignominious defeat of 107 BC by calling him bello Cassio dux Helvetiorum ( i. e. “ leader of the Helvetii in the Cassian campaign ”).
After the region fell to the Romans in 168 BC it became part of Epirus nova that was in turn part of the Roman province of Macedonia.
After mentioning that this fish was sacred to Hecate, Alan Davidson writes, " Cicero, Horace, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny, Seneca and Suetonius have left abundant and interesting testimony to the red mullet fever which began to affect wealthy Romans during the last years of the Republic and really gripped them in the early Empire.
After the Great Revolt ( 66 – 73 CE ), the Romans destroyed the Temple.
After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
After the Jewish garrison of Yodfat fell under siege, the Romans invaded, killing thousands ; the survivors committed suicide.
After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD, additional members of the Sicarii and numerous Jewish families fled Jerusalem and settled on the mountaintop, using it as a base for harassing the Romans.
After their subjugation by the Huns, little is heard of the Ostrogoths for about 80 years, after which they reappear in Pannonia on the middle Danube River as federates of the Romans.
After assaulting Saguntum, Hannibal surprised the Romans in 218 BC by leading the Iberians and three dozen elephants through the Alps.
After Rome emerged as victorious, significant Carthaginian settlements, such as those in Mauretania, were taken over and aggrandized by the Romans.
After and were
After the first two murders, the warning notes were rarely ignored.
After only eighteen years of non-interference, there were already indications of melioration, though `` in a slight degree '', to be sure.
After a sort of death march during four days without food, Helion and his comrades were shipped by cattle-car to a labor camp at an estate farm in East Germany.
After we got a script and the spots for the songs were blocked out, we'd get together for an hour or so every day.
After a pause, during which he studied Scotty's face as if Scotty were not there and could not study him too, Mr. McKinley would ask the same questions he had asked downstairs.
After the Juniors were welcomed and congratulated for qualifying for the Finals of the Junior Class, Mrs. William H. Long, Jr. was introduced as the first speaker.
After all, if you were going to set up a workshop you had to have the proper equipment and that was that.
After titration of the liberated Af with Af, aliquots of the aqueous and of the organic phase were counted in a solution-type Geiger tube.
After the 42 figures had been drawn like Figures 5 and 6, classifications of the onset ages and completion ages were summarized from them.
After blotting out most of the liquid around the sections, the latter were mounted in buffered glycerine ( 7 parts glycerine to 3 parts of PBS ).
After drying the sections under the fan, fixing in acetone, and drying at 37-degrees as in the indirect method, the sections were treated with conjugated Af or Af ( undiluted unless mentioned otherwise ) for 5 - 30 minutes.
After Af and Af were passed through Dowex-2-chloride twice and treated twice with healthy sweet clover tissue powder, nonspecific staining was greatly reduced but a disturbing amount of such staining was still present.
After every session, the check marks were totaled up and graphed, and in this way the supervisor's progress was charted.
After a while we were perhaps less surprised, but still puzzled, when a friendly discussion would suddenly jump the track into the most irrelevant and illogical comparisons.
After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.
After a flood of protests, they were reinstated at the beginning of 1953.
After an earthquake in Japan in 1793 people on the coast at Tugaru were so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground.
After he had proceeded a few feet, he paused and turned up the cuffs of his trousers, which were already damp and mud-caked.
After a time, it occurred to her that her thoughts were not worth the trouble.
After it allotted shares to 41 underwriters and 52 selling group members from coast to coast there were not many shares for anyone.
After this time, inscriptions on the Han bronze mirrors, as well as other writings, emphasized the desirability of keeping one's self at the center of the universe, where cosmic forces were strongest.
After returning to the United States and raising the money, he discovered on getting back to Japan that the hours were no longer available.
After the Revolution of 1917, views expressed by anthropologists in the USSR, and later the Soviet Bloc countries, were highly shaped by the requirement to conform to Marxist theories of social evolution.
After they each performed, both were deemed equal until Apollo decreed they play and sing at the same time.
" After the war, nationalists, especially those who had been active in the Continental Army, complained that the Articles were too weak for an effective government.
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