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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Carthaginian general and father of Hannibal. He led Carthaginian forces during the final years of the First Punic War. After making peace with the Romans, he returned to Carthage and quelled a rebellion of mercenary troops.
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Examples
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Betsy said they were making it before the Romans conquered Spain, when Hannibal's father Hamilcar Barca settled the peninsula and started the silver mines.
Girl on a Bridge W.F. Lantry 2010
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The one thing that most attracted his attention was the Chicago gas situation, because there was a chance to step in almost unheralded in an as yet unoccupied territory; with franchises once secured — the reader can quite imagine how — he could present himself, like a Hamilcar Barca in the heart of Spain or a Hannibal at the gates of Rome, with a demand for surrender and a division of spoils.
The Titan 2004
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Hamilcar Barca established a Carthaginian dominion in southern and southeastern Spain.
c. The Punic Wars 2001
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The Romans failed to dislodge the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca from the promontory of Eryx.
c. The Punic Wars 2001
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Six years before that time (B.C. 247), there came to the head of Carthaginian affairs a man of real greatness, Hamilcar Barca, whose last name is said to mean lightning; but even he was not strong enough to overcome the difficulties caused by the faults of others, and in 241 he counselled peace, which was accordingly concluded, though Carthage was obliged to pay an enormous indemnity, and to give up her claim to
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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Hannibal was a child of Hamilcar Barca, and from his earliest boyhood had been trained to fight against the Romans.
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For the great Hamilcar Barca, after he had conquered his adversaries, did not dare to make a campaign against the
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Hannibal, the elder of the two was son of Hamilcar Barca, and inherited his father's hatred of Rome, to which, indeed, he had been bound by a solemn oath, willingly sworn upon the altar at the dictation of his father.
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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The conquest was begun by Hamilcar Barca, and extended as far as the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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'No king was equal to Hamilcar Barca,' writes Cato the elder, and the words of Livy the historian about Hannibal might also be applied to his father.
The Red Book of Heroes Mrs. Lang 1909
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