Spanish Front (Second Punic War)

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Was the Carthaginian military campaign in the Iberian Peninsula during the Second Punic War.

Chronology

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January 218 BC: Hannibal, with the taking of Sagunto and with the subsequent crossing, in arms, of the river Ebro, broke the treaties of 241 BC and 226 BC, creating the conditions for the outbreak of the Second Punic War.

June 218 BC: After crossing the Ebro, in about two months he defeated, however losing as many as 22,000 men in deaths and defections, the populations that stood between the Carthaginian territory and the Pyrenees (including the Volci), where he left a contingent of over 10,000 infantry to protect them and 1,000 cavalry under the command of Hanno.

June 217 BC: Battle of the Ebro River.

January 216 BC: Expansion of the Roman Republic in the Iberian Peninsula by 215 BC.

April 215 BC: Battle of Dertosa.

January 211 BC: Scipio resumed the Roman offensive in Spain in 212 BC managing to reconquer Sagunto.

June 209 BC: Siege of Cartagena.

January 208 BC: Expansion of the Roman Republic in the Iberian Peninsula by 209 BC.

January 207 BC: Battle of Baecula. Roman victory.

January 205 BC: Battle of Ilipa.

January 217 BC: During the Second Punic War, Empúries openly sided with Rome. In 218 BC a Roman army landed in its port and the city became one of the most solid support points of the city in Hispania.

January 217 BC: Hanno was heavily defeated at Cissa, where he suffered heavy losses and was captured.