Battle of Ilipa
Saguntum - Lilybaeum II - Rhone - Ticinus - Trebia - Cissa - Lake Trasimeno - Ager Falernus - Geronium - Cannae - I Nola - Nola II - Ibera - Cornus - Nola III - Beneventum I - Syracuse - Tarentum I - Capua I - Beneventum II - Silarus - Herdonia I - Upper Baetis - Capua II - Herdonia II - Numistro - Asculum - Tarentum II - New Carthage - Baecula - Grumentum - Metaurus - Ilipa - Crotona - Large fields - Cirta - Zama
The Battle of Ilipa ( in the Iberian city Ilipa ), marked the end of the supremacy of the Carthaginians in Spain. She was also the career breakthrough for Scipio, the eventual winner of Zama. Scipio defeated Hannibal's brother, Mago, through an unconventional battle lineup that this could not counter. He commanded even the right wing, while his sub- commander Marcus Junius Silanus and Lucius Marcius Septimus had the command of the left wing Roman. Scipio tested at Ilipa preforming the later meetings tactics. The strategic impact of the battle may have been even greater than that of Cannae, on the one hand, the resource situation for Carthage was worse ( silver mines in Spain) and on the other hand, now no longer had to be fought only in Italy. The Battle of Ilipa was a precondition for Rome's ability to land in Africa and thus wegzuzwingen Hannibal from Italy. This had an impact on the flow of battle, the Battle of Crotona.
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- Polybius, Book XI, 20ff.
- Livy, Book XXVIII, 12ff.
- Appian, Iberica 25f.
- Zonaras, Book IX, 8, 9f.
- Battle of the Punic Wars
- 206 BC
- Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus
- Alcalá del Río