September 206 BC — the Second Punic War
Chapter VI · The ring closes — Metaurus & Ilipa — the ring closes.
This month
- Gades surrenders — Punic Spain is finished — Mago sails away with the temple treasure; the Gaditanes, already treating with Rome, surrender the last Carthaginian harbour in Spain. Two centuries of Punic Iberia end. (Livy 28.36–37)
Where the commanders stand
- Philip V of Macedon: In Pella · king of macedon
- Syphax: In Siga · king of the masaesyli
- Masinissa: In Cirta · king of the massylii
- Hasdrubal son of Gisco: In Carthage · since Summer 206 BC
- Mago Barca: Encamped at Off New Carthage · since Autumn 206 BC
- Q. Fabius Maximus: In Rome · princeps senatus
- Hannibal Barca: Operating in the region of the Bruttian redoubt · 2nd year
- Publius Cornelius Scipio: Operating in the region of Mutiny and the pact · 2nd month
- Hasdrubal Barca: fell here, June 207 BC
- M. Claudius Marcellus: fell here, June 208 BC
- Publius & Gnaeus Scipio: fell here, June 211 BC