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Excerpt from The Battle of Cannæ, and Terrible Overthrow of the Roman Army: An Historical Poem and Diagram, Showing the Positions of Both Armies Drawn Up in Order for Battle This small Poem is offered to the public without any formal introduction or explanation of the induce ments of the author, (expecting the reader to ascribe its publication to vanity, ) with the remark that it was composed for the amusement of a few leisure hours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.