Battle of Ilipa, 206 BC
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| Scipio Africanus Major versus Hasdrubal Gisco: A Roman army under Scipio and a Carthaginian army stare each other down when Scipio makes a bold redeployment. Can Hasdrubal shake off his surprise and recover to defeat Scipio’s smaller army? Also known as the Battle of Silpia. Click on images below to view battle; first image opens video presentation and the second image opens PowerPoint presentation.
For the Second Punic War, this battle is overshadowed by Metaurus River in importance and Cannae in brilliance.
Never has a redeployment achieved victory so handedly than in this battle. What was Hasdrubal to do?
 This is another one of those battles that I was immediately fascinated by after reading just one vague account of it. When first creating this site, I always intended to animate this battle. This battle did not take long to animate but would win the award for best weather effects.
- Jonathan Webb
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2 Comments to “Battle of Ilipa, 206 BC”
This is a very interesting and informative site. Thanks
By mike on Apr 29, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Scipio’s battles (not just this, but also reading accounts of Baecula and the one he fought against Antiochus, the name of which i can’t remember) are almost like watching ballet. The way he manoeuvres his troops and annihilates Hasdrubals army is really graceful. I wonder if Hasdrubal thought re enforcements must have shown up because there is no way the Romans could have wheeled into position like that…
Interesting to note that Scipio didn’t try anything this fancy against Hannibal, probably for fear of falling into some trap or exposing some weak point for Hannibal to exploit.
By Ziggy on Jul 31, 2009 at 7:22 am