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Carthaginian General customarily identified as the son of Gisco, probably related to Hannibal.
Hasdrubal
Gisco and two brothers of Hannibal named Mago and Hasdrubal commanded
three separate Carthaginian armies in Spain during 211 BC. Considerably
reinforced from Africa, they routed the Roman armies and killed their
commanders, Publius Cornelius Scipio and his brother Gnaeus.Late in 210
BC, Publius Cornelius Scipio the younger (later called Scipio
Africanus), the son of Publius Cornelius, arrived in Spain. He made
many military gains, and Hasdrubal adopted a strategy of avoiding
confrontations with him. In the early spring of 206 BC, Hasdrubal
realized that he must stand and fight. The armies met at Ilipa (now
called Alcal� del R�o), where Hasdrubal was outgeneraled, defeated, and
forced to retreat to the coast.
He
found his way to North Africa, where he gave Syphax, king of the
Massaesyli, his daughter Sophonisba in marriage to formalize their
military alliance. During the period from 205 to 203 BC Hasdrubal and
Syphax fought Scipio on African soil but were consistently
outmaneuvered. He was thrashed again in Africa in 203 (Souk El Kremis).
Gisgo committed suicide to avoid being lynched by a Carthaginian mob in
202, before the final Carthaginian defeat at Zama.
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