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See also:CANNAE (mod. Canne) , an See also:ancient See also:village of See also:Apulia, near the See also:river Aufidus, situated on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill on the right See also:bank, 6 m. S.W. from its mouth. It is celebrated for the disastrous defeat which the See also:Romans received there from See also:Hannibal in 216 B.C. (see PUNIC See also:WARS). There is a considerable controversy as to whether the See also:battle took See also:place on the right or the See also:left bank of the river. In later times the place became a See also:municipium, and unimportant See also:Roman remains still exist upon the hill known as See also:Monte di Canne. In the See also:middle ages it became a bishopric, but was destroyed in 1276.
See O. Schwab, Das Schlachtfeld von Canna (See also:Munich, 1898), and authorities under PUNIC WARS.
End of Article: CANNAE (mod. Canne)
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