Battle of Canusium was part of a larger offensive to narrow the base of the general who was the son of which commander?
Battle of Canusium:  A larger Roman offensive, of which it was a part, aimed to subjugate and to punish cities and tribes that had abandoned the alliance with Rome after the Battle of Cannae, and to narrow the base of the Carthaginian leader, Hannibal, in southern Italy. Hannibal:  His father Hamilcar Barca was the leading Carthaginian commander during the First Punic War.
Hamilcar Barca