The Iberian conquest was begun by Hamilcar Barca and his other son-in-law, Hasdrubal the Fair, who ruled relatively independently of Carthage and signed the Ebro treaty with Rome.

However, as spokesman for the landed nobility, Hanno opposes the policy of foreign conquest pursued by Hamilcar Barca.

The magnitude of the armament sent under Hamilcar, who is said to have landed in Sicily with an army of 300, 000 men, in itself sufficiently proves that the conquest of Himera was rather the pretext, than the object, of the war: but it is likely that the growing power of that city, in the immediate neighborhood of the Carthaginian settlements of Panormus and Solus, had already given umbrage to the latter people.

Following the First Punic War with Rome, in 237 BC, Hamilcar Barca, the famous Carthaginian general, then began the conquest of Turdetania ( the successor state of Tartessus ) and Gades to provide a springboard for further attacks on Rome.

Hannibal, son of Hamilcar Barca ( 247 – 183 / 182 BC ) was a Punic Carthaginian military commander, generally considered one of the greatest military commanders in history.

Under the Carthaginian military leader, Hamilcar, Carthage sends across a large army.

This probably dealt a fatal blow to any chance of permanent peace between Rome and Carthage and is one of the causes of the Second Punic War and held as the motivation of the subsequent military and political activities of Hamilcar.

Even though he was vastly outnumbered and faced a hardened mercenary army which he himself had led against the Roman legions, Hamilcar displayed superior military leadership and clever use of psychology in the conflict.

Around this time the War Office and Air Ministry began to draw up specifications for several types of military gliders to be used by the unit, which would eventually take the form of the General Aircraft Hotspur, General Aircraft Hamilcar, Airspeed Horsa and the Slingsby Hengist.

In 219 BC Hannibal, the son of Hamilcar Barca, attacked Saguntum in Hispania, a city allied to Rome, starting the second Punic War.

Hasdrubal Gisco is the son of the Gesco who had served together with Hamilcar Barca, Hannibal's father, in Sicily during the First Punic War and son-in-law of Hanno the Elder who was one of Hannibal's lieutenants in Italy.

Hasdrubal, the second son of Hamilcar Barca, is left in command of Spain when his brother Hannibal begins his campaign.

* Hannibal, son of Hamilcar Barca.

* Mago, son of Hamilcar Barca and brother of Hannibal.

Following the assassination of Hasdrubal, Hannibal, the son of the Carthaginian general, Hamilcar Barca, is proclaimed commander-in-chief by the army and his appointment is confirmed by the Carthaginian government.

* Hasdrubal ( son of Hamilcar ) fought in Sicily

* Hasdrubal ( Barcid ), son of Hamilcar Barca and brother of Hannibal and Mago

He employed combined arms tactics, like Alexander or Pyhrrus, and his strategy was similar to the one employed by Quintus Fabius Maximus in the Second Punic War, ironically against Hannibal Barca, the eldest son of Hamilcar Barca in Italy during 217 BC.

Furthermore, Hamilcar allied with Hasdrubal the Fair, his future son in law, to restrict the power of the aristocracy, which was led by

* Hamilcar, son of Hanno, led the Carthaginian forces at the Battle of Himera in 480 BC during the First Sicilian War

* Hamilcar, son of Gisgo and grandson to Hanno the Great, led a campaign against Agathocles of Syracuse between 311 BC and 307 BC in the Third Sicilian War, before his capture and execution.

* Livius. org: Hamilcar, son of Hanno

Mago, son of Hamilcar Barca, also spelled Magon, Phoenician MGN, " God sent " ( 243 BC – 203 BC ), was a member of the Barcid family, and played an important role in the Second Punic War, leading forces of Carthage against the Roman Republic in Hispania, Gallia Cisalpina and Italy.

Mago was the third son of Hamilcar Barca, brother to Hannibal and Hasdrubal, and brother-in-law to Hasdrubal the Fair.

A small squadron led by a commander named Hannibal, son of Hamilcar, managed to break the siege in broad daylight and deliver supplies to the garrison of Lilybaeum.

Hasdrubal ( 245 – 207 BC ) was Hamilcar Barca's second son and a Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War.

With the aid of a Carthaginian general Hannibal ( not the famous Hannibal, son of Hamilcar Barca ), and reinforcements under the command of Hanno the Great, the remnants of the mercenaries were finally put down.

This led Hamilcar, together with his son-in-law Hasdrubal and his son Hannibal to establish a power base in Hispania, outside Rome's sphere of influence, which later became the source of wealth and manpower for Hannibal's initial campaigns in the Second Punic War.

Hamilcar disguises a slave-child as his son Hannibal and sends him to die in his son's place.

Hannibal Barca, Hamilcar Barca's older son, is acclaimed commander-in-chief by the army and confirmed in his appointment by the Carthaginian Senate.

It was next captured by the Carthaginians under Hamilcar Barca ; legend has it that this is the place where he made his son Hannibal swear an oath that he would never be a friend of Rome.

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.

** Hasdrubal, Carthaginian general and son-in-law of Hamilcar Barca ( assassinated )

* Hasdrubal, Carthaginian general and son-in-law of Hamilcar Barca ( assassinated )

* Hasdrubal the Fair, son-in-law of Hamilcar Barca

* Hamilcar Barca, a Carthaginian general and statesman, leader of the Barcid family, and father of Hannibal, Hasdrubal and Mago.

After Carthage emerged victorious from the Mercenary War there were two opposing factions: the reformist party was led by Hamilcar Barca while the other, more conservative, faction was represented by Hanno the Great and the old Carthaginian aristocracy.

The causes leading the Selinuntines to abandon the cause of the other Greeks, and take part with the Carthaginians during the great expedition of Hamilcar ( 480 BCE ) are unknown ; they had even promised to send a contingent to the Carthaginian army, which, however did not arrive till after its defeat

A second ' lift ' of 220 Horsa and Hamilcar gliders carrying the 6th Air-landing Brigade and other units were to land at another drop-zone at 21: 00.

In the same year, Hamilcar Barca ( general Hannibal's father ) led a successful campaign in Sicily and a storm destroyed the other half of the Roman fleet, commanded by consul Junius Paullus.

The second legend attributes the foundation of the city directly to the historical Carthaginian Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal, who named the city Barcino after his family in the 3rd century BC.

They were defeated there by the Carthaginians under Hamilcar ( a popular Carthaginian name, not to be confused with Hannibal Barca's father, with the same name ) in 260 BC.

Hannibal was one of the sons of Hamilcar Barca, a Carthaginian leader.

According to Livy, Hannibal much later said that when he came upon his father and begged to go with him, Hamilcar agreed and demanded that he swear that as long as he lived he would never be a friend of Rome.

Hamilcar held Hannibal over the fire roaring in the chamber and made him swear that he would never be a friend of Rome.

The Carthaginians in the following spring ( 409 BCE ) sent over a vast army amounting, according to the lowest estimate, to 100, 000 men, with which Hannibal Mago ( the grandson of Hamilcar that was killed at Himera ) landed at Lilybaeum, and from thence marched direct to Selinunte.

* Hamilcar and another Carthaginian general, Hannibal, besiege Mathos ' mercenary army at Tunis and crucify the captured mercenary leaders in sight of the mercenary battlements.

Hannibal Mago, grandson of Hamilcar, invades Sicily with a strong force.

Hannibal Mago, the grandson of the Carthaginian general Hamilcar ( who unsuccessfully invaded Sicily in 480 BC ), begins preparations to reclaim Sicily.

His work ended with his own recollections of the Second Punic War, which he blamed entirely on Carthage, especially the Barca family of Hamilcar and Hannibal.

He, along with his brother Hannibal, escaped, as Hamilcar led the Iberians in the opposite direction and drowned in the River Jucar.

Internally, the victory of Hamilcar Barca greatly enhanced the prestige and power of the Barcid family, whose most famous member, Hannibal, would lead Carthage in the Second Punic War.