Famous Carthaginians
Adherbal the Admiral
Start 270 BC (Grand Camp.)
Dead : 230 BC.
Commander of Carthaginian fleet who won mastery of the seas for Carthage in 251-250 (First Punic War).
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Hannibal "The Rhodian"
Start command a group ships in 250 BC as 20 years old. -
Dead 235 BC, natural cause.
"Famous" blockade runner during the 1PW due to his speedy ships - cheated repeatedly the Roman naval blockade to Lylibeon.
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Himilco of Lilybaeum
Start 270 BC (Grand camp.)
Dead : 230 BC
Start command defender of Sicilian island. Valiant defender of Lilybaeum 254-249 during the First Punic War
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Hanno "the Great"
Start : 270 BC (Great Camp.)
Dead : 200 BC
Start command a army/navy of Sicilian island and defender of Carthage land against Numidia in 253 BE. A strong politician in Carthage from 241-200 BE.
Short history :
fl. 3rd century BC
Long-lived Carthaginian general and politician, he seems to have gained his title due to the success on the continent. Head of the Aristocratic Party, favoring peace with Rome.
In the First Punic War, he was defeated at the Agates Islands. After the war he repressed, in 241 Hanno was given command against the Carthaginian mercenaries who had raised a rebellion among the native North African peoples subject to Carthage. Nevertheless, his incompetence as a general soon forced him to share the command with Hamilcar Barca, and together they crushed the uprising (238). At this point a rift appears to have developed wit the Barcas.
Hanno's political popularity at Carthage rested on his domination of the North African tribesmen, from whom he exacted high taxes. As spokesman for the landed nobility, he opposed the policy of foreign conquest pursued by Hamilcar Barca and his son Hannibal in the interests of the commercial classes. Hence, during the Second Punic War, Hanno undermined support in Carthage for Hannibal's military efforts in Spain and Italy.
Leader of the aristocratic pro-Roman faction at Carthage during the Second Punic War (218-201) between Rome and Carthage, he prevented help being sent to Hannibal after the victory at Cannae. After Hannibal's defeat, Hanno helped negotiate a peace with the Romans.
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Hasdrubal Gisco
Start : 220 BC in Spain, possible Carthage Nova.
Killed in Zama 202 BC
Carthaginian General customarily identified as the son of Gisco, probably related to Hannibal.
Hasdrubal Gisco and two brothers of Hannibal named Mago and Hasdrubal commanded three separate Carthaginian armies in Spain during 211 BC. Considerably reinforced from Africa, they routed the Roman armies and killed their commanders, Publius Cornelius Scipio and his brother Gnaeus.Late in 210 BC, Publius Cornelius Scipio the younger (later called Scipio Africanus), the son of Publius Cornelius, arrived in Spain. He made many military gains, and Hasdrubal adopted a strategy of avoiding confrontations with him. In the early spring of 206 BC, Hasdrubal realized that he must stand and fight. The armies met at Ilipa (now called Alcalá del Río), where Hasdrubal was outgeneraled, defeated, and forced to retreat to the coast.
He found his way to North Africa, where he gave Syphax, king of the Massaesyli, his daughter Sophonisba in marriage to formalize their military alliance. During the period from 205 to 203 BC Hasdrubal and Syphax fought Scipio on African soil but were consistently outmaneuvered. He was thrashed again in Africa in 203 (Souk El Kremis). Gisgo committed suicide to avoid being lynched by a Carthaginian mob in 202, before the final Carthaginian defeat at Zama.
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Hasdrubal 'The Fair'
Start : 252 (as youth, 18 years old) - command a army : battle in Panormus - Siciliy - 251 BC
Killed (assassinated) of a slave - 221 BC
Carthaginian General, brother in law of Hamilcar Barca, Hasdrubal (or Asdrubal) joined his fortune to that of his illustrious father in law. When the latter drowned in the waters of the flooded in c229, Hannibal was too young to succeed his father and Hasdrubal, commander in chief of the army of Spain was elected. As admiral, Hannibal was the second rank in the Spanish state. Carthage ratified the choice. The temperament of Hasdrubal was rather political than warlike; he applied himself to organise the new state and accentuated its monarchical character. Not content with the military election that had brought him to power, Hasdrubal convoqued a congress of the principal iberian chiefs and succeeded in getting himself named commander in chief of all the nation.
He then founded a new capital, Carthago Nova (Carthagena). Influenced by the hellenistic model, he behave as a king, erecting a palace in the new city and receiving a tribute from the local princes. In c226 En ~ 226, the Roman Senate, alerted by the Greeks of Emporion (Emporiae), woke up to the power of Hasdrubal and sent an ultimatum to Carthagena, at the same time concluding a treaty with Sagunto, the most developed of the Iberian cities. This treaty, negotiated by the aristocratic party in power in the Spanish port, was attacked by the popular faction, but the Romans encouraged the savage execution of the leaders of the opposition and Hasdrubal had to accept the conditions of the Senate.
He concluded a treaty with Rome, in which he agreed not to cross the Ebro. He neverthelss continued his policy of developing relations with the Iberian princes beyond the Jucar. His agents helped Indibilis to federate the tribes of Catalonia and Edecon united those of Aragon. His aim was to isolate the friends of Rome in their coastal towns.
It was then that a Celt, who had sworn that he would not survive his master's crucifixion (on the orders of Hasdrubal) stabbed and killed the Carthaginian monarch.
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