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personBritish military historian, wrote about Roman losses in the Battle of Cannae.
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571. Hannibal: Roman Bloodbath at Cannae (Part 4)
And Richard Holmes writes, the Romans lost more men killed than the British army on the first day of the Somme in 1916. Which I guess for British people is always the measuring stick of pointless slaughter, isn't it?