Hamilcar Barca or Barcas (Punic: 𐤇𐤌𐤋𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤁𐤓𐤒, Ḥomilqart Baraq; c. 275–228 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman, leader of the Barcid family...
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Hasdrubal Barca (245 – 22 June 207 BC), a latinization of ʿAzrubaʿal (Punic: 𐤏𐤆𐤓𐤁𐤏𐤋, romanized: ʿAzrōbaʿl) son of Hamilcar Barca, was a Carthaginian...
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Hannibal (redirect from Hannibal Barca)
the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War. Hannibal's father, Hamilcar Barca, was a leading Carthaginian general during the First Punic War. His...
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winning the Battle of Drepanum in 249 BC during the First Punic War. Hamilcar Barca (c. 270–228 BC) served as a Carthaginian general during and after the...
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family in ancient Carthage Hamilcar Barca (275–228 BC), general and statesman, father of Hannibal, Hasdrubal, and Mago Hannibal Barca (247 – c. 181 BC), military...
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Military of Carthage (section Hamilcar Barca)
success under the command of Hamilcar Barca and his son Hannibal in the First and Second Punic Wars respectively. Hannibal Barca specifically, is widely regarded...
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Naravas (section Alliance with Hamilcar Barca)
critical time, he switched his allegiance to Hamilcar Barca of Carthage. In 239 BC, he arrived at Hamilcar's camp with 2,000 horsemen. This probably saved...
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Carthaginian military leader and politician, governor in Iberia after Hamilcar Barca's death, and founder of Cartagena. Livy's History of Rome records that...
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in Iberia and northern and central Italy. Mago was the third son of Hamilcar Barca, was the brother of Hannibal and Hasdrubal, and was the brother-in-law...
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Mercenary War (section Hamilcar)
especially under the generalship of Hanno. Hamilcar Barca, a veteran of the campaigns in Sicily (and father of Hannibal Barca), was given joint command of the army...
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most well known political opponent of Barcid family; first Hamilcar and later Hannibal Barca. Hanno's wealth was based on the land he owned in Africa and...
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role in the fighting against the Romans, particularly Hamilcar Barca. After the war, Hamilcar commanded the Punic forces that defeated the former Carthaginian...
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Fair (c. 270 BC – 221 BC), son-in-law of Hamilcar Barca Hasdrubal Barca (245–207 BC), son of Hamilcar Barca and brother of Hannibal and Mago Hasdrubal...
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general Hamilcar Barca died during the battle in uncertain circumstances, but according to legend an association of towns defeated Hamilcar's army by...
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the Romans being able to use their superior army to interfere. When Hamilcar Barca took command of the Carthaginians on Sicily in 247 BC he was only given...
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attack. The fictional title character, a priestess and the daughter of Hamilcar Barca, the foremost Carthaginian general, is the object of the obsessive lust...
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Hamilcar's victory with Naravas took place in 240 BC in what is now north-west Tunisia. A Carthaginian army led by Hamilcar Barca defeated a rebel army...
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fought in 238 BC between a Carthaginian army of over 30,000 commanded by Hamilcar Barca and Hanno, and approximately 20,000 mutinous Carthaginian soldiers and...
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culminating battle of a campaign fought between a Carthaginian army led by Hamilcar Barca and a rebel force led by Spendius in 238 BC in what is now northern...
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name derived from Latin Hamilcar, itself a Punic name known to the Romans through their Carthaginian foes, especially Hamilcar Barca. Notable people with...
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of the Bagradas River was fought between a Carthaginian army led by Hamilcar Barca and a rebel force led by Spendius in 240 BC in what is now north-east...
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defeat of Carthage in the First Punic War, the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca crushed a mercenary revolt in Africa and trained a new army consisting...
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Hanno opposes the policy of foreign conquest pursued by Hamilcar Barca. Nevertheless, Hamilcar Barca leads a Carthaginian army in an invasion of the Iberian...
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Fair (c. 270 BC – 221 BC), son-in-law of Hamilcar Barca Hasdrubal Barca (245–207 BC), son of Hamilcar Barca and brother of Hannibal and Mago Hasdrubal...
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rebel army under Mathos was besieged by a Carthaginian force under Hamilcar Barca and Hannibal. The Carthaginian army, which had served on Sicily during...
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This article concerns the period 239 BC – 230 BC. Concerned that Hamilcar Barca's leniency in pardoning those who he has captured who have participated...
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suggest that the city may have been named after the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca, who was supposed to have founded the city in the 3rd century BC, but...
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Lilybaeum (now Marsala) and Drepanum (now Trapani). In the winter of 248/7, Hamilcar Barca takes over the chief command of the Carthaginian forces in Sicily at...
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trapped in a canyon at the Battle of the Saw by the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca, and surrendered. Together with other mercenary leaders, he was crucified...
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