Hannibal was in a war.
The Battle of Cannae ( [ ˈkæni ] or [ ˈkæneɪ ] ) was a major battle of the Second Punic War that took place on 2 August 216 BC in Apulia , in southeast Italy . Hannibal . One of his most famous achievements was at the outbreak of the Second Punic War , when he marched an army which included war elephants from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into Italy .