Hasdrubal

Hasdrubal (died c. 202 bc) was a Carthaginian general customarily identified as the son of Gisco. Hasdrubal and two brothers of Hannibal named Mago and Hasdrubal commanded three separate Carthaginian armies in Spain from 214 through 206 bc. Considerably reinforced from Africa, they routed the Roman armies and killed their commanders, Publius Cornelius Scipio and his brother Gnaeus, in 211. Late in 210 bc, Publius Cornelius Scipio the younger (later called Scipio Africanus), the son...