Question: Battle of Canusium was part of a larger offensive to narrow the base of the general who was the son of which commander?

Context articles: Hannibal
5th Guards Army
Alexander Utvenko
Battle of Canusium
Battle of Mulhouse
Andrey Matveyevich Andreyev
Battle of Angaur
Tawakalna ala Allah Operations
Nikolay Oleshev
Alexey Tereshkov

Hannibal Barca (Punic language: 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 𐤁𐤓𐤒 , "ḥnb‘l brq"; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC), was a <a href="Ancient%20Carthage">Carthaginian</a> general, considered one of the greatest military commanders in history.
 His father Hamilcar Barca was the leading Carthaginian commander during the First Punic War.
 His younger brothers were Mago and Hasdrubal, and he was brother-in-law to Hasdrubal the Fair.
The 5th Guards Army was a Soviet Guards formation which fought in many critical actions during World War II under the command of General Aleksey Semenovich Zhadov.
 The 5th Guards Army was formed in spring 1943 from the 66th Army in recognition of that army's actions during the Battle of Stalingrad.
 The 5th Guards Army fought in the Battle of Kursk, Belgorod-Khar'kov Offensive Operation, Battle of the Dnieper, Uman–Botoșani Offensive, Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive, Vistula–Oder Offensive, Berlin Offensive, and the Prague Offensive.
 During the Berlin Offensive elements of the army linked up with American troops at Torgau on the Elbe.
 Postwar, the army was disbanded as part of the Central Group of Forces.
Alexander Ivanovich Utvenko (Russian: Александр Иванович Утвенко; 12 December 1905 – 20 August 1963) was a Red Army Lieutenant general.
 Utvenko became a Red Army officer in the interwar period and was given command of a division after the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
 He fought in the Battle of Smolensk (1941), the Yelnya Offensive and the Battle of Moscow.
 In December 1941 he was wounded and after taking the Vystrel courses was given command of the 274th Rifle Division in May 1942.
 Utvenko took command of the 33rd Guards Rifle Division in August and led that division in the Battle of Stalingrad.
 In April 1943 he became commander of the 31st Guards Rifle Corps and led it in the Donbass Strategic Offensive (August 1943).
 In the spring of 1944 he began an accelerated course at the Military Academy of the General Staff.
 After graduating in early 1945 he became commander of the 38th Guards Rifle Corps which fought in the Vienna Offensive and Prague Offensive in the last months of the war.
 Postwar Utvenko continued to command the corps which in the summer of 1946 became an airborne unit.
 He graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff and became commander of the 65th Rifle Corps.
 During the early 1950s he served in positions at the Frunze Military Academy and retired in 1954.
The Battle of Canusium was a three-day engagement between the forces of Rome and Carthage.
 It took place in Apulia during the summer of 209 BC, the tenth year of the Second Punic War.
 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.
The Battle of Mulhouse (German: Mülhausen ), also called the Battle of Alsace (French: "Bataille d'Alsace" ), which began on 7 August 1914, was the opening attack of World War I by the French Army against Germany.
 The battle was part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace, which France had ceded to the new German Empire following defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871.
 The French occupied Mulhouse on 8 August and were then forced out by German counter-attacks on 10 August.
 The French retired to Belfort, where General Louis Bonneau, the VII Corps commander, was sacked along with the commander of the 8th Cavalry Division.
 Events further north led to the German XIV and XV corps being moved away from Belfort and a second French offensive by the French VII Corps, reinforced and renamed the French Army of Alsace (General Paul Pau), began on 14 August.
In November 1942 he took command of the newly formed 102nd Rifle Division and led it in Operation Kutuzov, the Battle of the Dnieper and the Gomel-Rechitsa Offensive.
 In December 1943 he was appointed commander of the 29th Rifle Corps and fought in the Operation Bagration and the Lublin–Brest Offensive.
 In September, Andreyev became commander of the 4th Guards Rifle Corps, defending the Magnuszew bridgehead.
 In November he was appointed deputy commander of the 47th Army and in December given command of the 125th Rifle Corps.
 He led the corps in the Vistula–Oder Offensive, East Pomeranian Offensive and the Battle of Berlin.
 In April 1945 he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his leadership in the capture of Warsaw.
 Postwar, he commanded the 4th Guards Rifle Corps, 7th Guards Rifle Corps, 19th Rifle Corps, 3rd Shock Army, 28th Army and Voronezh Military District.
 He was then Warsaw Pact representative to the Albanian People's Army and Czechoslovak People's Army.
 After leading the Military Institute of Foreign Languages, Andreyev retired in 1973.
 He lived in Moscow and died in 1983.
The Battle of Angaur was a battle of the Pacific campaign in World War II, fought on the island of Angaur in the Palau Islands from 17 September—22 October 1944.
 This battle was part of a larger offensive campaign known as Operation Forager which ran from June 1944 to November 1944 in the Pacific Theater of Operations, and Operation Stalemate II in particular.
The "Tawakalna ala Allah" Operations (Arabic: توكلنا على الله‎ , "tawakkalnā ‘alā llāh " ‎ "We Have Trusted in God") were a series of five Iraqi offensives fought towards the end of the Iran–Iraq War, consisting of the Second Battle of al-Faw, the Battle of Fish Lake, the Battle of the Majnoon Islands, the Battle of Dehloran, and the Battle of Qasre Shirin.
 Iraq had originally only intended to retake the al-Faw peninsula, but following the battles' extraordinary success due to the complete collapse of the Iranian troops present, the Iraqi command decided to expand the battle into a larger offensive campaign.
 Iraq heavily used chemical weapons during the operations.
After graduating from a course at the Frunze Military Academy, he was chief of staff of the Southwestern Front composite border detachment during its retreat across Ukraine after Operation Barbarossa.
 In February 1942 he became commander of the 371st Rifle Division and fought in the Battles of Rzhev.
 In February 1943 Oleshev was promoted to Major general and became commander of the 36th Rifle Corps from May.
 He led the corps during Operation Suvorov and Operation Bagration.
 After the capture of Minsk he was appointed the city's military commandant and oversaw cleanup operations in the city.
 He then became the commander of the 113th Rifle Corps and led it during the Baltic Offensive and East Prussian Offensive.
 Oleshev was promoted to lieutenant general in early May.
 During the summer the corps transferred to the Far East and fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August.
 For his leadership in the offensive Oleshev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Alexey Dmitrievich Tereshkov (Russian: Алексей Дмитриевич Терешков ; Belarusian: Аляксей Дзмітрыевіч Церашкоў ; 17 March 189318 March 1960) was a Belarusian Soviet Army Lieutenant general and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
 Tereshkov fought in World War I as a non-commissioned officer and then as a platoon leader.
 After the February Revolution he joined the Bolshevik party and became a partisan fighting against German troops in Belarus.
 Tereshkov became a Red Army officer and fought in the Russian Civil War as a company commander.
 He fought in the Spanish Civil War and after Operation Barbarossa was commander of the 413th Rifle Division in the Far East.
 The division fought in the Battle of Moscow.
 In May 1943 Tereshkov was appointed commander of the 38th Rifle Corps, leading the corps during the Battle of Smolensk, Operation Bagration, Vistula–Oder Offensive, and the Battle of Berlin.
 He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his leadership in the Vistula–Oder Offensive.
 Postwar, Tereshkov led the 113th and 5th Guards Rifle Corps.
 He retired in 1953 and died in 1960.