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The Battle of Lake Trasimeno ( June 24, 217 BC) was a Roman defeat in the Second Punic War between the Carthaginians under Hannibal and the Romans under the consul Gaius Flaminius. Hannibal ordered his forces into the forested hills bordering Lake Trasimeno, and waited in ambush for the Roman forces to come by. When the Romans had become fully within the bounds of the Carthaginian forces, the Carthaginians attacked. First, the Carthaginians sent a small skirmish force to draw a small number of roman men away from the rest of the group, and as the remainder began to charge, the Carthaginians attacked the army from the flank, causing dis-array and slaughtered the Romans. The Romans were unable to get into their typical battle-formation and were forced to fight unprepared. Many were driven into the Lake. Of the 25,000 or so Roman soldiers an estimated 15,000 were killed. Lake Trasimene
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