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HASDRUBAL , the name of several Carthaginian generals, among whom the following are the most important: 1. The son-in-See also:

law of Hamilcar See also:Barca (q.v.), who followed the latter in his See also:campaign against the governing See also:aristocracy at See also:Carthage at the See also:close of the First Punic See also:War, and in his subsequent career of See also:conquest in See also:Spain. After Hamilcar's See also:death (228) Hasdrubal, who succeeded him in the command, extended the newly acquired See also:empire by skilful See also:diplomacy, and consolidated it by the See also:foundation of New Carthage (See also:Cartagena) as the See also:capital of the new See also:province, and by a treaty with See also:Rome which fixed the See also:Ebro as the boundary between the two See also:powers. In 221 he was killed by an See also:assassin. See also:Polybius ; See also:Livy xxi. 1 ; See also:Appian, Hispanica, 4-8. 2. The second son of Hamilcar Barca, and younger See also:brother of See also:Hannibal. See also:Left in command of Spain when Hannibal departed to See also:Italy (218), he fought for six years against the See also:brothers Gnaeus and Publius Scipio. He had on the whole the worst of the conflict, and a defeat in 216 prevented him from joining Hannibal in Italy at a See also:critical moment; but in 212 he completely routed his opponents, both the Scipios being killed. He was subsequently outgeneralled by Publius Scipio the Younger, who in 209 captured New Carthage and gained other advantages. In the same See also:year he was summoned to join his brother in Italy.

He eluded Scipio by See also:

crossing the See also:Pyrenees at their western extremity, and, making his way thence through See also:Gaul and the See also:Alps in safety, penetrated far into Central Italy (207). He was ultimately checked by two See also:Roman armies, and being forced to give See also:battle was decisively defeated on the See also:banks of the Metaurus. Hasdrubal himself See also:fell in the fight; his See also:head was cut off and thrown into Hannibal's See also:camp as a sign of his utter defeat. Polybius x. 34-xi. 3; Livy See also:xxvii. 1-51; Appian, Bellum Hannibalicum, ch. lii. sqq.; R. See also:Oehler, Der letzte Feldzug See also:des Barkiden Hasdrubals (See also:Berlin, 1897) ; C. See also:Lehmann, See also:Die Angriffe der drei Barkiden auf Italien (See also:Leipzig, 1905). See also PuNlc See also:WARS.

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