HAMILCAR 



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HAMILTON 



Hamilcar. Name of several 

 famous Carthaginians. (1) Son of 

 Mago, one of the suffetes or su- 

 preme magistrates. Having in- 

 vaded Sicily 480 B.C. with a large 

 army of mercenaries, he laid siege 

 to Himera, but was utterly de- 

 feated by Gelon (q.v. ). Hamilcar 

 himself 'was slain and his army 

 virtually annihilated. ( 2 ) Military 

 and naval commander during the 

 first Punic War. After various suc- 

 cessful operations by land, the 

 Carthaginian fleet, commanded by 

 Hamilcar and Hanno, was defeated 

 (256 B.C.) by Regulus and Volso 

 off Ecnomus, half-way between 

 Gela and Agrigentum. 



Hamilcar Barca (c. 270-228 

 B.C.). Carthaginian soldier and 

 statesman, the father of Hannibal. 

 Incommandof 

 the Carthagin- 

 ian forces in 

 Sicily during 

 the first Punic 

 War, he suc- 

 cessfully held 

 his ground 

 against the 

 Romans, until 

 the naval vic- 

 tory of the lat- 

 ter under Catulus, in 241 B.C., forced 

 the Carthaginians to conclude a 

 peace, in negotiating which Hamil- 

 car took the leading part. On his 

 return to Carthage he had to deal 

 with a revolt of mercenaries, which 

 he crushed after three years' fight- 

 ing. He then turned his attention 

 to Spain, and in nine years, by 

 fighting and by negotiation, had 

 established Carthaginian dominion 

 over a great part of the country, 

 when his career was brought to an 

 end by his death in battle in 228 

 B.C. His surname means lightning 

 (Hebr. barak). 



Hamilton. Burgh and market 

 town of Lanarkshire. It stands 

 near where the Avon falls into the 

 Clyde, and is 11 m. S.E. of Glasgow. 

 It has stations on the N.B. and 



Hamilcar, Cartha- 

 ginian soldier 



From a coin 



Cal. Rlys. and is the centre of a rich 

 coal and ironstone district ; min- 

 ing being the chief industry. There 

 are also cotton 

 and other manu- 

 factures, while 

 the place is a 

 centre for the 

 produce of 

 numerous mar- 

 ket gardens. 



Hamilton's Hamilton arms 

 chief buildings are the town hall 

 with .a lofty clock tower, and the 

 county buildings. The grammar 

 school was founded in 1588, and 

 moved to its present building in 

 1847. There are barracks, and the 

 place is a regimental depot. Tram- 



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Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire. Formerly the seat of 

 th 



le dukes of Hamilton 

 ways connect the town with Glas- 

 gow, Motherwell, and other places 

 in the neighbourhood. It gives its 

 name to a county division returning 

 one member to Parliament. Hamil- 

 ton was originally known as Cad- 

 zow, but took its present name 

 when it passed to the family of 

 Hamilton. Its modern growth be- 

 gan with the opening of the mines 

 in the 19th century. Pop. 38,600. 

 Hamilton Palace stands near the 

 town. It occupies the site of the 

 burgh of Nether ton, and the first 

 house was built about 1600. This 

 was rebuilt about 1700, and in 



1820-30 the 10th duke built the 

 third house. An enormous building 

 in the classical style, the front is 

 Corinthian, with a pillared portico. 

 The treasures of the palace were 

 very valuable, but in 1882 a 

 great sale disposed of a number of 

 them for over 300,000. In 1920 

 the duke decided to dismantle the 

 palace, which was becoming unsafe 

 owing to the underground workings, 

 and the rest of the pictures and 

 other contents were sold. In the 

 park, which is 1,500 acres in extent, 

 is a magnificent mausoleum, built 

 by the 10th duke at a cost of 

 about' 1 30,000. This, too, became 

 unsafe, and in 1921 arrangements 

 were made to remove the bodies 

 therefrom. In- 

 cluded in the ducal 

 property are .the 

 ruins of Cadzow 

 Castle, in the 

 park of which is a 

 famous breed of 

 wild cattle. 



Hamilton . 

 Suburb of Bris- 

 bane, Australia. 

 It has fine river 

 frontage with 

 wharf accommo- 

 dation for the 

 largest ocean 

 steamships. Pop. 

 6,247. See Bris- 

 bane. 



Chief town of the 

 western district of Victoria, 

 Australia. It is 198 m. W. of Mel- 

 bourne by rly., in the centre of a 

 pastoral and agricultural area, 

 with butter factory and meat- 

 preserving works. 

 Pop. 5,000. 



Hamilton. 

 City and port of 

 Canada. It stands 

 on a branch of 

 Burlington Bay, 

 at the W. end of 



Lake Ontario, Hamilton, Ontario, 

 being 40 m. from arms 



Hamilton. 



Hamilton, Canada. General view of the city on Lake Ontario 



