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Hasdrubal and Gisco
According to Appian, in 213 BC Hasdrubal left Iberia and fought Syphax, though he may be confused with Hasdrubal Gisco, however, it did bind Carthaginian resources.
* Accused of treason by the Carthaginians after being defeated by the Romans at the Battle of the Great Plains, Hasdrubal Gisco commits suicide to avoid being lynched by a Carthaginian mob.
* Hasdrubal Gisco, Carthaginian general who has fought against Rome in Iberia and North Africa during the Second Punic War, customarily identified as the son of Gisco ( suicide )
** Hasdrubal Gisco, Carthaginian general who has fought against Rome in Iberia and North Africa during the Second Punic War, customarily identified as the son of Gisco ( suicide )
* Having lost his alliance with the Numidian chief Masinissa, the Carthaginian general, Hasdrubal Gisco, finds a new ally in the Numidian king Syphax, who marries Sophonisba, Hasdrubal's daughter, whom until his defection to Rome has been betrothed to Masinissa.
Scipio is unable to stop the combined forces of the Carthaginians under Hasdrubal Gisco and the Numidians under their chief, Syphax, and he is forced to lift his siege of Utica.
The Numidian king, Syphax, and the Carthaginian leader, Hasdrubal Gisco, manage to escape separately.
* Hasdrubal Gisco persuades the Carthaginians to raise a new army and to send for Hannibal to return home from Italy.
* In the Battle of Ilipa ( Alcalá del Río, near Seville ) in Spain, the Carthaginian generals, Mago Barca and Hasdrubal Gisco, are defeated by the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio.
* Hasdrubal Gisco retreats to the coast and then crosses to North Africa, where he gives his daughter in marriage to Syphax, king of the Numidian Masaesyli tribe, to formalize their military alliance.
* Hasdrubal Gisco, another commander in the Second Punic War
The two Barca brothers, aided by Hasdrubal Gisco, battled the Romans under the command of the Scipio brothers ( Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus and Publius Cornelius Scipio ) throughout 215 – 212 BC.
Mago and Hasdrubal Gisco guarded the Carthaginian possessions in Iberia without difficulty, despite the Scipios outnumbering their armies during the absence of Hasdrubal.
The Carthaginian armies were separated, with Hasdrubal Gisco near Gades with 10, 000 troops, Mago near Castulo with another 10, 000, and Hasdrubal with 15, 000 soldiers near Amtorgis.
Hasdrubal Gisco force marched to join Mago, who, aided by Indibilis and Masinissa, defeated and killed Publius Scipio, then with the combined armies joined Hasdubal to defeat and kill Gnaeus Scipio as well in a span of 23 days.
Hanno was captured, but Mago managed to lead a few thousand survivors to Gades, where he joined forces with Hasdrubal Gisco.
After suffering defeat at Ilipa in 206 BC, Hasdrubal Gisco returned to Africa and Mago retreated to Gades ( modern Cádiz ) with the remnants of his army.
Wounded in a battle in Cisalpine Gaul, Mago was recalled back to Carthage along with Hannibal to aid in its defence, as the future Scipio Africanus major had shattered the armies of Hasdrubal Gisco, Hanno, son of Bomilcar, and had captured Syphax, who was allied to Carthage, in Africa.
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 Scipio to abandon the siege of Utica.

Hasdrubal and is
Hasdrubal, the second son of Hamilcar Barca, is left in command of Spain when his brother Hannibal begins his campaign.
* The Carthaginian general Hasdrubal is murdered by a Celtic assassin while campaigning to increase the Carthaginian hold on Spain.
Following the assassination of Hasdrubal, Hannibal, the son of the Carthaginian general, Hamilcar Barca, is proclaimed commander-in-chief by the army and his appointment is confirmed by the Carthaginian government.
The Carthaginian army is defeated by the Romans and Hasdrubal is killed in the battle.
* Hasdrubal is ordered by the Carthaginian government to march to Italy.
It is recorded that the services of Cato contributed to the decisive victory of Sena on the Metaurus, where Hasdrubal was slain.
The Numidian King Massinissa is visiting Carthage and Hasdrubal, brother of Hannibal, promises him his beautiful daughter Sophonisba, in marriage.
Maciste and Cabiria flee, henchmen hard on their heels, to the cedar garden of Hasdrubal and encounter Massinissa and Sophonisba just as their secret tryst is commencing.
The Numidian king Massinissa, guest of the Carthaginian Hasdrubal, raises his right hand and is so greeted in return, once by the strongman Maciste.
The Roman force was probably further diminished by earlier fighting with Hasdrubal the evidence of which is the presence of several thousand prisoners in Hasdrubal's camp.
The time this occurred is still debated with no definite evidence, some historians arguing that the first settlement of the ancient Roman Forum was built approximately in 188 BC by consul Gaius Livius Salinator ( who confronted Hasdrubal Barca and vanquished him at the banks of the Metaurus River in 207 BC ), while others even argue it may have been founded later, in the time of Julius Caesar.
He is succeeded in command of the Carthaginian armies in Iberia by his son-in-law Hasdrubal, who extends the newly acquired empire by skillful diplomacy, and consolidates it by the foundation of Carthago Nova ( Cartagena ) as the capital of the new province.
His younger brother Hasdrubal Barca is left in the command of the Carthaginian armies in Iberia.
* 209 BC-Scipio Africanus drives back Hasdrubal Barca from his position at Baecula, on the upper Guadalquivir, but is unable to hinder the Carthaginian's march to Italy.

Hasdrubal and son
* Hasdrubal ( son of Hamilcar ) fought in Sicily
* Hasdrubal ( Barcid ), son of Hamilcar Barca and brother of Hannibal and Mago
Furthermore, Hamilcar allied with Hasdrubal the Fair, his future son in law, to restrict the power of the aristocracy, which was led by
Mago was the third son of Hamilcar Barca, brother to Hannibal and Hasdrubal, and brother-in-law to Hasdrubal the Fair.
Hasdrubal ( 245 – 207 BC ) was Hamilcar Barca's second son and a Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War.
This led Hamilcar, together with his son-in-law Hasdrubal and his son Hannibal to establish a power base in Hispania, outside Rome's sphere of influence, which later became the source of wealth and manpower for Hannibal's initial campaigns in the Second Punic War.
203 BC ) was a Carthaginian noblewoman who lived during the Second Punic War, and the daughter of Hasdrubal Gisco Gisgonis ( son of Gisco ).
Hamilcar entrusted the conquest and military governance of the region to his son Hasdrubal the Fair-his other son, Hannibal, would march his troops across Hispania with elephants to lead them on Rome in the Second Punic War.
** Hasdrubal son of Gisco goes into Lusitania and camps near the Tagus mouth.

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