Gaul armies abandoned the Carthaginians led by Hannibal in Etruria came an ancient region of central Italy that included some of the current areas of Tuscany, Umbria and northern Lazio, Hannibal was ready to invade Rome, at dawn on 24 June 217 BC the Roman legions led by Consul Gaius Flaminius clashed with the army of Hannibal near Lake Trasimeno in a pitched battle that ended in a real slaughter in which the Roman forces were defeated on the Carthaginian enemy.
Gaius Flaminius was to intercept and slow down Hannibal advanced awaiting reinforcements led by the consul Gnaeus Servilius Gemino, Hannibal knew it could not simultaneously address the two armies decided to attack by surprise, forcing the Roman legions in the hills and the shores of the lake in a perfect encirclement maneuver that prevent any possibility of escape to the enemy during the battle died the consul Gaius Flaminius as well as another 15,000 Roman legionnaires.
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