Scipio Africanus's most brilliant victory in his military career during the Second Punic War
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Publius Cornelius Scipio Lucius Marcius Septimus Marcus Junius Silanus
Hasdrubal Gisco Mago Barca
Strength
Total: 48,000–55,000Polybius: 48,000 men • 45,000 infantry • 3,000 cavalryLivy: 55,000 men
Total: 54,500–74,000Polybius: 74,000 men • 70,000 infantry • 4,000 cavalry 32 war elephantsLivy: 54,500 men • 50,000 infantry • 4,500 cavalry Unknown number of elephantsModern estimate:[1] 64,000 men • 60,000 infantry • 4,000 cavalry 32 elephants
Casualties and losses
7,000 killed
More than 48,500 killed or captured
All cavalry killed, wounded or captured
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Saguntum
Rhone
Crossing of the Alps
Italy
Ticinus
Trebia
Mutina
Placentia
Victumulae
Lake Trasimene
Umbrian Lake
Crossing of the Apennines
Ager Falernus
Geronium
Cannae
Silva Litana
1st Nola
Nuceria Alfaterna
1st Casilinum
Hamae
1st Petelia
Cumae
2nd Nola
1st Beneventum
3rd Nola
2nd Casilinum
Lucania
Arpi
1st Tarentum
2nd Beneventum
Campi Veteres
1st Capua
Silarus
1st Herdonia
2nd Capua
Rome
Sapriportis
2nd Herdonia
Numistro
Canusium
Manduria
Caulonia
2nd Tarentum
Locri
2nd Petelia
Venusia
Grumentum
Metaurus
Crotona
Insubria
Iberia
Cissa
Ebro River
Ibera
Illiturgis
Munda
Orongi
Upper Baetis
1st New Carthage
Baria
Baecula
Ilipa
Sucro
1st Carteia
2nd Carteia
2nd New Carthage
Sicily and Sardinia
Lilybaeum
Malta
Decimomannu
Leontini
Syracuse
Himera
Agrigentum
North Africa
1st Utica
2nd Utica
Great Plains
Cirta
Zama
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The Battle of Ilipa (/ˈɪlɪpə/) was an engagement considered by many as Scipio Africanus’s most brilliant victory in his military career during the Second Punic War in 206 BC.
It may have taken place on a plain east of Alcalá del Río, Seville, Spain, near the village of Esquivel, the site of the Carthaginian camp.[2]
Though it may not seem to be as original as Hannibal’s tactic at Cannae, Scipio's pre-battle maneuver and his reverse Cannae formation stands as the acme of his tactical ability, in which he forever broke the Carthaginian hold in Iberia, thus denying any further land invasion into Italy and cutting off a rich base for the Barca dynasty both in silver and manpower.
^Gabriel, Richard A. (2008). Scipio Africanus: Rome's Greatest General. Potomac Books. pp. 118, 262. ISBN 978-1-59797-205-5.
^"The Search for the Battle-site of Ilipa: Back to Basics". www.academia.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
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