Significant206 BCE

Battle of Ilipa

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Ilipa, near modern Alcalá del Río, Hispania Baetica (Spain)

Estimated casualties

0single estimate · no range published

Ancient figures unreliable / no reliable estimate. Carthaginian army destroyed but precise totals uncertain.

SOURCEunrecorded

Scipio Africanus outmaneuvered a larger Carthaginian army under Hasdrubal Gisco and Mago in southern Spain through a sophisticated double-envelopment. The victory effectively ended Carthaginian power in the Iberian Peninsula.

Belligerents2

Roman Republic
Carthage

ON THE MAPRoman RepublicCarthaginian Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFSecond Punic War

Sources

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

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