Using these group tactics, they operated as effective persistence hunters, relying not on outrunning their prey, but pursuing it to the point of exhaustion.
With the ten leaders in tow, Hamilcar and his deputy commander tracked down the rest of the rebels and sandwiched them between the two Carthaginian forces.
There were no signs of foul play, but given his career of putting away criminals, one theory is that he was killed as revenge, or as part of a coverup.