Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "Carthaginian generals" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The Carthaginian general also advised equipping a fleet and landing a body of troops in the south of Italy, offering to take command himself. [66] In 190 BC, after having suffered a series of defeats in the Roman–Seleucid War, [70] Antiochus gave Hannibal his first significant military command after spending five years in the Seleucid court. [71]
Hanno the Navigator — Carthaginian explorer; Hanno, son of Hannibal — Carthaginian general in the First Punic War; Hanno, Messana garrison commander — Carthaginian general in The First Punic War; Hanno, son of Bomilcar — Carthaginian officer in the Second Punic War; Hasdrubal I of Carthage — Magonid king of Ancient Carthage 530–510 BC
Xanthippus (Ancient Greek: Ξάνθιππος) of Lacedaemon, or of Carthage, was a Spartan mercenary general employed by Carthage during the First Punic War.He led the Carthaginian army to considerable success, compared to previous failure, against the Roman Republic during the course of the war, training the army to a professional standard before defeating the Romans at the Battle of Tunis ...
After the final Carthaginian naval defeat at the Aegates Islands, [3] the Carthaginians surrendered in the First Punic War. [4] Hamilcar Barca (Barca meaning lightning), [5] a leading member of the patriotic Barcine party in Carthage and a general in the First Punic War, sought to remedy the losses that Carthage had suffered in Sicily to the Romans.
Hanno (Punic: 𐤇𐤍𐤀, ḤNʾ) [1] was a Carthaginian general, prominent in the events leading to the start of the First Punic War (264 to 241 BC). Satellite photo of the Strait of Messina. The Strait of Messina, Italian mainland in the distance.
During the sixth century BC, Carthaginian generals became a distinct political office known in Punic as rb mhnt, or rab mahanet. Unlike in other ancient societies. Carthage maintained a separation of military and political power, with generals either appointed by the administration or elected by citizens. [143]
Hasdrubal returned to Carthage, where he committed suicide in 202 BC to avoid being lynched by a Carthaginian mob. As a general, he was not in the class of the Barcid brothers, although Livy describes him as "the best and most distinguished general this war produced after the three sons of Hamilcar". [3]