Crossword clues for cannae
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cannae \Cannae\ n. the name of a battle in which Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 b. c. Called also battle of Cannae.
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "cannae".
They staked everything on decisive battle in the image of Hannibal, but even the ghost of Hannibal might have reminded Schlieffen that though Carthage won at Cannae, Rome won the war.
Could they not in fact accomplish a true Cannae, the double envelopment that Schlieffen had held in the back of his mind?
Perhaps, after all, the two armies of the left wing could succeed in breaking through the French fortified line and in cooperation with the right wing bring about a true Cannae —a double envelopment.
The perfect Cannae that Schlieffen had dreamed of and renounced, the double envelopment by the left wing through Lorraine simultaneously with the right wing around Paris, now seemed possible of achievement.
If the French First and Second Armies had given way at any point, if they had weakened under Rupprecht’s final onslaught of September 3, the Germans would have won their Cannae and there would have been no opportunity for a French counter-offensive on the Marne, the Seine, or anywhere else.
Crivens, it’s a puir lookout if a man cannae feel the chilly winds o’ Fate lashing aroound his nethers wi’out folks telling him he’s deid, eh?
But I cannae face thinkin’ o’ you out there fightin’ this monster that cannae be killed!
It cannae be a good life for the puir wee big wee thing, all alone and far fra’ home, among strangers.
What she had been expecting was more like 'Ach, ye cannae do that, a wee lass like you, oh dearie us no!
You see and hear what others canna', the world opens up its secrets to ye, but ye 're always like the person at the party with the wee drink in the corner who cannae join in.
And you cannae establish a low BDQ then have the hero take oot the baddie wi' wan shot while the air roon about him fills up wi' lead.
And we cannae have very long before it becomes a snuff movie, so quit babblin' and sober up.
After the army had fled from the field of Cannae it was deported to Sicily, not to return till the enemy had evacuated Italy, and a similar decree was recently passed in the case of Fulvius' legions.
When they were all flying in disorder he was swept away by the rush as Varro was at Cannae and as many other commanders have been at different times.
That was how he had conquered at Cannae, and at Thrasymenus, by meeting the enemy face to face, army to army, and trying his fortune in battle.