Atlas of Battles

commander, 4 engagements

Battles of Hannibal Gisko

Carthaginian military commander in 1st Punic War, 300 BC to 258 BC

Hannibal Gisko is recorded as a commander at 4 placed engagements in the atlas between 261 BC and 258 BC: 1 siege and 3 naval actions, all in present-day Italy. Taken in date order, the sites lie 781 km apart end to end, 260 km between engagements on average. Most belong to First Punic War (4).

Battle of AgrigentumBattle of MylaeBattle of the Lipari IslandsBattle of SulciBattle of AgrigentumBattle of MylaeBattle of the Lipari IslandsBattle of SulciTunisPalermoCataniaCagliariBizerteSiracusaNabeulMarsalaBéjaRagusa200 km38.192N, 11.842E
4 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

261 BC: 1 engagements260 BC: 2 engagements2 in 260 BC258 BC: 1 engagements261 BC258 BC
4 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Agrigentum, 261 BCBattle of Mylae, 260 BCBattle of the Lipari Islands, 260 BCBattle of Sulci, 258 BC261 BC258 BC
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
261 BCBattle of AgrigentumAgrigento, ItalyRoman victory
260 BCBattle of MylaeMilazzo, Italy176 km NERoman victory
260 BCBattle of the Lipari IslandsLipari, Italy37 km NWCarthaginian victory
258 BCBattle of SulciSulci, Italy568 km WRoman victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.