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	Hasdrubal Barca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In late 212 BC Hasdrubal acted with imagination and initive, and with timely cooperation from Mago and Hasdrubal Gisco, completely routed his opponents at the Battle of the Upper Baetis, destroying the majority of the Roman army in Spain and killing both the Scipios.
		Hasdrubal was defeated by Scipio at the Battle of Baecula, but managed to retreat with 2/3 of his army intact.
		Hasdrubal himself fell in the fight; his head was cut off and thrown into Hannibal's camp as a sign of his utter defeat, in stark contrast of Hannibal's treatment of the bodies of fallen Roman Consuls.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hasdrubal_Barca (830 words)

	Hasdrubal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hasdrubal was the name of several Carthaginian generals of the First and Second Punic War.
		Hasdrubal Gisco, another commander in the Second Punic War
		Hasdrubal was also the general of punic forces in the Third Punic War (see Battle of Carthage).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hasdrubal (110 words)

	Carthage, Africa - LoveToKnow 1911
		The fighting was then transferred to Sicily, where Hasdrubal was defeated at Panormus (250); subsequently the Romans failed before Lilybaeum and were defeated at Drepanum, but their victory at the Aegates Islands ended the war (241).
		His son-in-law, Hasdrubal Pulcher, built Carthagena in 227 and concluded with Rome a treaty by which the Ebro was adopted as the boundary of the Carthaginian sphere.
		Hearing that Scipio had taken Utica (203) and defeated Hasdrubal and Syphax, king of Numidia, Hannibal returned from Italy, but with a hastily levied army was defeated at Zama (October 19, 202).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Carthage,_Africa (5254 words)

	Special Project 1: Tangent Deliverable
		Hasdrubal Barca, Hannibal's brother, was raising men for an army to reinforce the Carthaginian armies of Spain.
		Hasdrubal survived and retreated with the remains of his army unopposed, Scipio having decided that to follow would have been far to risky.
		Meanwhile, Hasdrubal Barca met defeat in Italy at the river Metaurus by the new Roman consuls, and was killed.
	www.travelin-tigers.com /zhs/proj1d.htm (2933 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Soldiers and Sailors by Charles Horne
		Hasdrubal fled with the remainder of his army toward the Tagus and the Pyrenees.
		Hasdrubal Barcas, the defeated general, however, had carried considerable wealth with him in his flight, and with these means he raised an army in Spain, to lead into Italy to the assistance of his brother Hannibal, hoping thus to bring the war to an end in Italy.
		During these preparations of Hasdrubal, Scipio was engaged against the two other Carthaginian generals, one of whom (Mago) was defeated, in B.C. by the proprietor Silanus, in the country of the Celtiberians, and Hanno, who came with an auxiliary army from Africa, was taken prisoner.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=horne&book=soldiers&story=scipio (3007 words)

	PERSONNAGES DE L'ÉPOQUE GB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Hasdrubal is known for his political opposition to the Carthaginian aristocracy and for the unusually wide support that he enjoyed from the city's ordinary citizens.
		Hasdrubal assisted Hamilcar in successful campaigns of conquest against local tribes on the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain) from 237 BC until Hamilcar's death during the winter of 229-228 BC.
		Hasdrubal, the second son of Hamilcar Barca, was left in command of Spain when his brother Hannibal went to Italy (218 BC), and he fought for seven years against Publius Cornelius Scipio and his brother Gnaeus.
	www.apollonia.com.tn /hgbww5.htm (6343 words)

	Second Punic War Biography,info
		However, Hasdrubal was able to defeat the Romans in the Battle of the Upper Baetis, and the two Roman commanders, brothers named Publius Cornelius Scipio and Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus, were killed.
		After Hasdrubal Barca's army was defeated by Scipio at the battle of Baecula in 208 BC, he still managed to retreat with 2/3 of his army intact.
		His co-general Hasdrubal Gisco was forced to suicide by a violent mob after he spoke in support of Hannibal not to lead these troops into battle.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Second_Punic_War (6826 words)

	Great Battles of History: Vae Victis 28 Translation
		Hasdrubal's army had camped without apprehension and the fleet's vessels had been brought ashore in dispersed order on several beaches when two cruisers from Massilia, a Roman-allied city, spotted the Carthaginians.
		For Hasdrubal, surprise was total, because he believed the Roman army was still far off and he did not expect the arrival of a fleet.
		Despite Hasdrubal's exhortations, the Carthaginian fleet arrived in battle in poor posture, worse still because of its disorder relative to the enemy.
	patriot.net /~townsend/GBoH/gboh-vv28-translation.html (692 words)

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		He carried on the war there with varying success in concert with the two Hasdrubals until, in 209, his brother marched into Italy to help Hannibal.
		Mago remained in Spain with Hasdrubal, the son of Gisco.
		In 207 he was defeated by M. Junius Silanus, and in 206 the combined forces of Mago and Hasdrubal were scattered by Scipio Africanus in the decisive battle of Silpia.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=42398 (341 words)

	Scipio Africanus - A Military Biographical Sketch
		That is where Hasdrubal had taken up a position on a steep ridge, the rear of which was defended by a river, so as to bar the Roman's access to Baetica (present-day Andalusia).
		Hasdrubal, however, was quick to notice the developing pincers and disengaged before fully committing his forces.
		With Hasdrubal Barca's army out of Iberia, S.A. completed his conquest by crushing the last Carthaginian forces under the command of another Hasdrubal (son of Gisgo) at the Battle of Ilipa in 206 bc.
	romanhistorybooksandmore.freeservers.com /scipio.htm (2987 words)

	Conquest of Hispania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Carthaginian forces were structured into 3 armies, commanded respectively by Hasdrubal Barca, Mago Barca, and Hasdrubal Gisco, the last son of the Carthaginian commander Hannibal Gisco, killed in the First Punic War.
		Upon his arrival the three Carthaginian armies found themselves in this situation: Hasdrubal Barca's army was in the area around the origin of the Tajo; the army of Hasdrubal, son of Gisco, was situated in Lusitania near modern Lisboa; and Mago's army was in the area near the Strait of Gibraltar.
		Hasdrubal Gisco and Mago Barca received new reinforcements from Africa in (206 BC), and for their part recruited an army of natives.
	tramadol.tfres.net /wiki/Conquest_of_Hispania (4555 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 345 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		, to succeed Hasdrubal Gisco in the command in Africa, is expressly called by Appian son of Bomilcar, there can be little doubt that it was the same as the subject of the present article, though we have no account of his return to Africa.
		It was after, the final defeat of Hasdrubal and Syphax.by Scipio, that Hanno assumed the command ; and, in the state of affairs which he then found, it is no re-proach to him that he effected little.
		He joined with Hasdrubal, although then an outlaw, in a plot for setting fire to the camp of Scipio, but the project was discovered, and thereby prevented; and he was repulsed in an attack upon the camp of Scipio before Utica.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1453.html (1094 words)

	The Wargamer - Battle of The Persian Gates - 330 BCE
		Hasdrubal son of Gisgo, recruiting in the west of Spain had assembled an army of 50,000-70,000 infantry and 4,500 horse, plus 32 elephants.
		Hasdrubal mobilized all his men without waiting for them to have breakfast and deployed in his usual formation, while the light troops and cavalry skirmished.
		Hasdrubal was unable to respond to this; the Spanish levies on his wings were probably incapable of such maneuver, while any move by the African center against he Roman columns would risk exposing their own flanks to Scipio's cautiously advancing Spaniards.
	www.wargamer.com /articles/gb-articles/ilipa/ilipa.asp (869 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Polybius: The Third Punic War, 149-146 B.C.
		Hasdrubal, the general of the Carthaginians, was a vain ostentatious person, very far from possessing real strategic ability.
		And just at this moment Hasdrubal's wife, seeing him seated in front of the enemy with Scipio, advanced in front of the deserters, dressed in noble and dignified attire herself, but holding in her hands, on either side, her two boys dressed only in short tunics and shielded under her own robes.
		First she addressed Hasdrubal by his name, and when he said nothing but remained with his head bowed to the ground, she began by calling on the name of the gods, and next thanked Scipio warmly because, as far as he could secure it, both she and her children were saved.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/polybius-punic3.html (2822 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 346 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		When Mago, after the great defeat sustained by Hasdrubal Gisco and himself, in 206, took refuge at Gades, he employed Hanno in levying mercenaries.among the neighbouring Spanish tribes ; the latter had succeeded in assembling a considerable force, when he was attacked and defeated by L. Marcius.
		He himself escaped from the field of battle with a small body of troops, but was soon after given up by his own followers to the Roman general.
		According to Zonaras he was the son of Hasdrubal Gisco; Livy, on the contrary, calls him son of Hamilcar— what Hamilcar we know not, but certainly not the great Barca.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1454.html (1042 words)

	Phoenicia, Phoenicians and Punic: Carthaginian History
		Carthage, under forces led by Hasdrubal and Bostzer, defeats Rome before the gates, largely with Numidian cavalry, led by Greek mercenary leader Xanthippus.
		Hasdrubal defeated outside Panormus and is executed by his own forces.
		221 Hasdrubal assassinated by an Iberian -- succeeded by Hannibal.
	www.phoenicia.org /carthtimeline.html (1399 words)

	Scipio Africanus family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		However Hasdrubal was actually trying to avoid a decisive battle in order to pass around the Romans and march on Italy.
		Therefore in 206 Hasdrubal left Gades and moved to Ilipa (near modern Corduba) with 50,000 infantry, 4-5,000 cavalry, and 32 elephants.
		Syphax allied to Carthage in support of Hasdrubal Gisco and brought an army against Scipio, forcing him to raise the siege and fortify his own camp on the shore between Utica and Carthage.
	www.xenophon-mil.org /milhist/rome/scipio.htm (5547 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.65
		Hasdrubal, Hamilcar's son-in-law, carried on Hamilcar's work in Spain, and negotiated the important (if contentious) "Ebro Treaty" with Rome.
		Then there were the brothers of Hannibal, Mago and Hasdrubal, minor (at least in Roman accounts) but crucial players in the Carthaginian war effort during the Second Punic War.
		119-21); the rising influence of Hasdrubal son of Gisco at Carthage in the latter half of the war (pp.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-07-65.html (1964 words)

	CNAfTemplate
		Gisco arranged to send the Punic forces back to Carthage in small groups to be paid off and mustered out.
		Hasdrubal continued the Barcid expansion in Iberia, but he used diplomacy rather than Hamilcar's army.
		By 221 BC when Hannibal succeeded Hasdrubal (who had been murdered by a disaffected tribesman), all of the Iberian peninsula south of the Ebro River was under Barcid control.
	www.mmdtkw.org /CNAf004MercenaryWarBarcidSpain.html (4159 words)

	Punic Wars
		Leaving about 20,000 troops with his brother, Hasdrubal, to fight in Spain, Hannibal left Spain ahead of the Roman army he knew would be arriving, marched over the Pyrenees, eluded a Roman force in southern Gaul (France), crossed the Rhone and then the Alps.
		Realizing he was outnumbered by the combined Roman armies, Hasdrubal attempted to withdraw across the river but was killed in battle as his army was destroyed.
		Hasdrubal Gisco and the Numidian king Syphax forced Scipio to give up the siege.
	www.xenophon-mil.org /milhist/rome/punic.htm (4098 words)

	MAGO - Online Information article about MAGO
		Hasdrubal, who was hard pressed in See also:
		concert with the two Hasdrubals until, in 209, his brother marched into Italy to help Hannibal.
		Junius Silanus, and in 206 the combined forces of Mago and Hasdrubal were scattered by Scipio See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LUP_MAL/MAGO.html (489 words)

	Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, Book 19
		Hasdrubal and Hamilcar, sons of Mago; Hasdrubal dies in Sardinia; war of the Carthaginians in Sicily, I.
		But as the cause of the Africans was the more just, their fortune was likewise superior, and the struggle with them was ended—not by exertions in the field—by the payment of a sum of money.
		In Sardinia Hasdrubal was severely wounded, and died there, leaving the command to his brother Hamilcar; and not only the mourning throughout his country, but the fact that he had held eleven dictatorships and enjoyed four triumphs,
	www.forumromanum.org /literature/justin/english/trans19.html (1189 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Syphax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Having lost the alliance with Massinissa, Hasdrubal started to look for another ally, which he found in Syphax, sealing the alliance by offering his daughter Sophonisba in marriage who until 206 had been betrothed to Massinissa.
		With the reversal of alliances it looked like Carthage and Syphax were in a strong position in Africa, certainly during the early stages of Scipio's campaign in North Africa, the joined forces of Syphax and Hasdrubal Gisco were able to force the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio to abandon the siege of Utica.
		However in the Battle of Bagbrades, Scipio overcame Hasdrubal and Syphax and while the Roman general concentrated on Carthage, Gaius Laelius and Massinissa followed Syphax to Cirta
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Syphax (558 words)

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		Hasdrubal was assassinated by a disgruntled slave, and was replaced by his son Hannibal.
		They scored some success, especially when Hasdrubal (not to be confused with Hasdrubal, father of Hannibal), the Carthaginian general in Spain, was recalled briefly to fight the Numidians.
		He saw that the Carthaginian armies were separated, under Hasdrubal, Mago and Hasdrubal Gisco.
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		Having to pay a huge tribute to Rome for the next 50 years because they had lost the war (our more enlightened century speaks of “reparations”), the Carthaginian senators who ran the state did not see their way clear to pay the mercenaries what they had been promised.
		Gisco, the commander in Sicily, proposed sending them back to their native countries a few boatloads at a time so that a mutually agreeable sum could be negotiated with each group.
		She howled down a curse upon Hasdrubal for his cowardice, seized her two little sons in her arms and jumped into the purifying fire.
	www.robertwernick.com /articles/carthage.htm (3554 words)

	Ancient Rome From the Earliest Times Down to 476 A.D By Robert F. Pennel (1890)- Chapter 16 from Nalanda Digital ...
		Fortunately for the Romans, the three Carthaginian generals, HASDRUBAL and MAGO, brothers of Hannibal, and HASDRUBAL, son of Gisco, did not act in harmony.
		Shortly after, Scipio fought Hasdrubal, the brother of Hannibal, at BAECULAE, in the upper valley of the Baetis (Guadalquivir); but the battle was not decisive, for Hasdrubal was soon seen crossing the Pyrenees, with a considerable force, on his way to Italy.
		The two Carthaginian generals now in Spain, Mago, and Hasdrubal, the son of Gisco, retired, the latter to Lusitania, the former to the Baleares, to wait for reinforcements from home.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/ancrome/chapter16.html (1963 words)

	History of Carthage
		The traitors (Hasdrubal Barca and other captured CIS leaders) were then placed aboard ship, under heavy guard (and against serious internal opposition to the legality of the act) and extradited to Spain to stand trial there.
		Hasdrubal, the uncle of Harko, had been implicated a few years back for his seditious activities against Spain.
		However, as Gisco did not get underway until early ’62, he reached Archimedea to find the city once more firmly in the hands of the Islanders, so he was forced to abandon the effort and return to Augostina.
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