Battle of Lake Trasimene - For the World War II battle, see
Trasimene Line. |Battle of Lake Trasimene| |Part of the Second
Punic War| |Commanders and leaders| |Hannibal||Gaius Flaminius
†| |55,000 soldiers||30,000 soldiers| |Casualties and losses|
|2,500 killed and "many" dead from wounds||15,000 killed| The
Battle of Lake Trasimene (June 21, 217 BC, April on the Julian
calendar) was a major battle in the Second Punic War. The
Carthaginians under Hannibal defeated the Romans under the
consul Gaius Flaminius. The battle is one of the largest and
most successful ambushes in military history. The Romans,
greatly alarmed and dismayed by Tiberius Sempronius Longus’
defeat at Trebia, immediately made plans to counter the new
threat from the north. Sempronius returned to Rome and the Roman
Senate resolved to elect new consuls the following year in 217
BC. The new consuls were Gnaeus Servilius Geminus and Gaius
Flaminius, the latter under threat with recall from the Senate
for leaving Rome without carrying out the pr