April 203 BC — the Second Punic War
Chapter VI · The ring closes — Metaurus & Ilipa — the ring closes.
This month
- Battle of the Great Plains — Thirty days later Hasdrubal and Syphax have raised a new army with four thousand Celtiberians; Scipio meets it on the Bagradas plain and only the Celtiberians stand. (Polybius 14.7–8; Livy 30.8)
Where the commanders stand
- Philip V of Macedon: In Pella · king of macedon
- Syphax: Encamped at the Great Plains · since Spring 203 BC
- Masinissa: Encamped at the Great Plains · since Spring 203 BC
- Hasdrubal son of Gisco: Encamped at the Great Plains · since Spring 203 BC
- Mago Barca: Operating in the region of Savo and the Ligurian hills · 2nd year
- Q. Fabius Maximus: In Rome · princeps senatus
- Hannibal Barca: Operating in the region of the Bruttian redoubt · 4th year
- Publius Cornelius Scipio: Encamped at the Great Plains · since Spring 203 BC
- Hasdrubal Barca: fell here, June 207 BC
- M. Claudius Marcellus: fell here, June 208 BC
- Publius & Gnaeus Scipio: fell here, June 211 BC