RIDICULOUS HISTORY FACTS PART V #shorts #history

RIDICULOUS HISTORY FACTS PART V #shorts #history

Hannibal's defeat of the Romans at Lago Trasimeno. By leaving soldiers to light fires in the hills, he created the illusion that his army was three days' march away, when tens of thousands of men were actually concealed in the hills just above the lake. The Romans were surprised on the shore and trapped between the onslaught and the water. In their armour. Half of the 30,000 Roman troops were either killed in battle or drowned in the lake. 5000 were captured and the other 10,000 staggered back to Rome creating panic that the greatest army in the world had just been handed their ass by a Carthaginian upstart. It was the greatest ambush in military history.

Herostratus is the guy who burned down the Temple of Artemis. The only reason he did it was to have his name written down in history.

The shortest war occurred between Zanzibar and the British empire, lasting around 45 minutes.