Hasdrubal Gisco
(-202 BC)
Biographical
Son of Gisco.[U74]
Carthaginian general at the Second Punic War in Spain from 214 BC.[U74]
With Mago, he killed Publius Scipio, 211 BC.[U74]
Defeated in Spain, 206 BC, he fled to Numidia and allied himself with
King Syphax.[U74]
Commander-in-chief of the Punic armies in Africa, 204 BC.[U74]
Defeated by Scipio, 203 BC.[U74]
His killed himself after being accused of treason,[U74]
or the Carthaginian mob turned on him and killed him.[J31] |