Significant208 BCE

Battle of Baecula

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Baecula, near modern Santo Tomé, Hispania (Spain)

Estimated casualties

0single estimate · no range published

Ancient figures unreliable / no reliable estimate.

SOURCEunrecorded

Scipio Africanus defeated Hasdrubal Barca's Carthaginian army in southern Spain, though Hasdrubal escaped with part of his force to march on Italy. It was Scipio's first major victory in the Iberian campaign of the Second Punic War.

Belligerents2

Roman Republic
Carthage

ON THE MAPRoman RepublicCarthaginian Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFSecond Punic War

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Baecula
Livius.org (Jona Lendering)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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