Two legions commanded by Appius Claudius Caudex disembarked at Messana, where the Mamertines had expelled the Carthaginian garrison commanded by Hanno ( no relation to Hanno the Great ).

The garrison of Agrigentum managed to call for reinforcements and the Carthaginian relief force commanded by Hanno came to the rescue and destroyed the Roman supply base at Erbessus.

Nevertheless the Carthaginian faction that opposed the conflict, led by the land-owning aristocrat Hanno the Great, gained power and in 244 BC, and considering the war to be over, started the demobilization of the fleet, giving the Romans a chance to again attain naval superiority.

* Hanno the Great, Carthaginian leading politician

* 244 BC: With little to no naval engagements, Hanno the Great of Carthage advocates demobilization of large parts of the Carthaginian navy to save money.

The name was derived, described by Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian navigator and possible visitor ( circa 480 BC ) to the area that later became Sierra Leone.

Hannibal's Iberian and Gallic heavy cavalry, led by Hanno on the left, defeated the Roman heavy cavalry, and then both the Carthaginian heavy cavalry and the Numidians attacked the legions from behind.

Until Henry's time, Cape Bojador remained the most southerly point known to Europeans on the unpromising desert coast of Africa, although the Periplus of the Carthaginian Hanno the Navigator described a journey farther south about 2, 000 years earlier.

A noteworthy example is the use of two prayers in Punic in Poenulus, spoken by the Carthaginian elder Hanno, which are significant to Semitic linguistics because they preserve the Carthaginian pronunciation of the vowels.

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.

This convinced the Carthaginian commander Hanno, the nephew of Hannibal, to accept pitched battle before his troops had been united with the army under Hasdrubal, the brother of Hannibal, despite being outnumbered 2 to 1.

The history of Western Sahara can be traced back to the times of Carthaginian explorer Hanno the Navigator in the 5th century BC.

Phoenician / Carthaginian colonies established or reinforced by Hanno the Navigator in the 5th century BC have vanished with virtually no trace.

On arrival in Carthaginian territory, the mercenaries submit a demand to Hanno the Great for payment of their contracts.

They called the islands " Gorgades " in remembering the home of the mythical Gorgons killed by Perseus and afterwards-in typically ancient euhemerism-interpreted ( against the written original statement ) as the site where the Carthaginian Hanno the Navigator slew two female " Gorillai " and brought their skins into the temple of the female deity Tanit ( the Carthaginian Juno ) in Carthage.

* Carthaginian reinforcements led by Hanno the Great join the battle.

* Hanno the Great is given command of the Carthaginian forces.

The garrison of Agrigentum manages to call for reinforcements and a Carthaginian relief force commanded by Hanno comes to the rescue and destroys the Roman supply base at Erbessus.

In its immediate neighborhood were fought two of the most decisive actions of the war: the Battle of Beneventum, ( 214 BC ), in which the Carthaginian general Hanno was defeated by Tiberius Gracchus ; the other in 212 BC, when the camp of Hanno, in which he had accumulated a vast quantity of corn and other stores, was stormed and taken by the Roman consul Quintus Fulvius Flaccus.

The very next year, however, after the fall of Tarentum, they changed sides again, and betrayed the Roman troops into the hands of the Carthaginian general Hanno.

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

Their chose to minimize the Sicilian operations while Hamilcar was in command, reduce the navy and support Hanno the Great ’ s conquests in Africa, all of which were causes for the ultimate defeat of Carthage in the First Punic War.

Hanno “ The Great ” was in charge of operations in Africa since 248 BC and had conquered considerable territory by 241 BC.

Hamilcar next invited Hanno to join forces, but cooperation between them was ineffective and the Peoples assembly voted to give Hamilcar sole command By the power of his personal influence among the mercenaries and the surrounding African peoples, superior strategy and some luck, Hamilcar, and also cooperation, if unenthusiastic, from Hanno the Great, Hamilcar crushed the revolt by ( 237 BC ) amid a war marked with cruelty atrocities from both sides.

Consul again 212 BC, fighting the Second Punic War, he won a victory over Hanno the Elder, capturing his camp at Beneventum, then he was defeated by Hannibal at the first Battle of Capua, then captured Capua in 211 BC while serving as proconsul.

* A brother of Gisco ( 3 ) and possibly brother of Hanno ( 9 ) with whom he was executed in the middle of the 4th century BC ( Polyen.

* 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.

His deputy, another Hanno, was defeated by L. Marcius, and Mago was unable to take advantage of the rebellion of Hispanic tribes under Indibilis or the mutiny of the Roman troops in 205 BC.

:* Hanno the Elder ( died 204 BC ), Carthaginian general

:* Hanno I the Great ( 4th century BC ), Carthaginian admiral

:* Hanno II the Great ( 3rd century BC ), wealthy Carthaginian aristocrat

:* Hanno III the Great ( 2nd century BC ), ultra-conservative Carthaginian politician

Hanno the Great was a politician and military leader of the 4th century BC.

And enjoy he did, traveling around Rome at the head of a lavish parade featuring panthers, jesters, and Hanno, a white elephant.

Hanno the Great was aligned with them and they espoused peaceful relations with Rome, even at the cost of abandoning overseas territories.

Woodcut of Hanno on pamphlet by Philomathes ( Rome, c. 1514 )

Hanno, actually an Asian elephant, came to Rome in 1514 with the Portuguese ambassador Tristão da Cunha and quickly became the Pope's favorite animal.

Hanno was said to be white in colour, and arrived by ship from Lisbon to Rome in 1514, aged about four years, and was kept initially in an enclosure in the Belvedere courtyard, then moved to a specially constructed building between St. Peter's Basilica and the Apostolic Palace, near the Borgo Sant ' Angelo ( a road in the rione of Borgo ).

When Hanno the Great met with officers from the mercenary companies, he rejected their demands, claiming that Carthage could not possibly pay such an exorbitant sum due to her post-war indemnities to Rome.

He later studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Professor Hanno Blaschke during 1989 / 90 and later in London with Janice Chapman in 1999 and in Rome with Margaret Baker-Genovesi in 2002.

By the time Hanno moved onto the attack, the rebels had already blockaded Utica and Hippakra.

Another ancient chief text cited by Avienus is the Periplus of Himilco, the description of a Punic expedition through the coasts of western Europe which took place at the same time of the circummnavigation of Africa by Hanno ( c. 500 BC ).

In 215 BCE, Hanno, the lieutenant of Hannibal, after his defeat at Grumentum by Tiberius Gracchus, threw himself into Bruttium, where he was soon after joined by a body of fresh troops from Carthage under Bomilcar: and from this time he made that region his stronghold, from whence he repeatedly issued to oppose the Roman generals in Lucania and Samnium, while he constantly fell back upon it as a place of safety when defeated or hard pressed by the enemy.

* 279 AD Hanno and Rufus ' estimation of the time of Rufus ' birth.