"I'm English, so obviously do not have a philosophy. I am a Christian, though, if you want to know about important bel…"

"Attila the Hun remains to this day a byword for savagery and destruction. His is one of the few names from antiquity …"

"It is widely believed that Christianity remained an essentially urban cult and that the population of the countryside…"

"On 2 August 216 BC the Carthaginian General Hannibal won one of the most complete battlefield victories in history. O…"

"Most battles from the Ancient World are now all but forgotten, for military as well as civil education has ceased to …"

"Hannibal won the battle through not only his dynamic leadership and the high quality of his army, but also because of…"

"It was very difficult to disable an opponent with a single blow; either a heavy strike to the head, a massive thrust …"

"The Roman legion was supposed to operate with wide gaps between its maniples and significant intervals between each o…"

"Hasdrubal had led his close order cavalry in a devastatingly brutal charge against the Roman right wing, shattering a…"

"There is a nightmarish quality about many of the descriptions of the aftermath of Cannae....Later sources would inven…"