In the mid 520s BC, Hasdrubal, along with his brother Hamilcar I, launched an expedition against Sardinia.
[2] Hasdrubal was elected as "King" eleven times, was granted a triumph four times (the only Carthaginian to receive this honour – there is no record of anyone else being honoured to that extent by Carthage) and died of his battle wounds received in Sardinia.
[3] Carthage had engaged in a 25-year struggle in Sardinia, where the natives may have received aid from Sybaris, then the richest city in Magna Graecia and an ally of the Phocaeans.
[4] Hasdrubal's war against the Libyans failed to stop the annual tribute payment.
[5] Around this time, the Carthaginians managed to defeat and drive away the colonisation attempt near Leptis Magna in Libya by the Spartan prince Dorieus after three years.