Spain also needs to be provided for so you
place the country under the able command of your energetic brother Hasdrubal.
You assign him an army mainly composed of African troops - 11,850 native
infantry, 300 Ligurians, and 500 Balearics. In addition to this body of
infantry there were 450 Libyphoenician cavalry, a mixed race
of Punic and aboriginal African descent - some 1800 Numidians and
Moors, dwellers on the shore of the Mediterranean, and a small mounted
contingent of 300 Ilergetes raised in Spain. Twenty-one
elephants will also remain. And since Rome's victory in the First Punic War was ensured through their naval prowess, the coast's protection requires a fleet. Hasdrubal is assigned 57 warships, including 50 quinqueremes, 32 quinqueremes, 2 quadriremes, and 5
triremes.