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Hannay (han'ā), James. Born at Dumfries, Scotland, Feb. 17, 1827: died at Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 9, 1873. A British critic, novelist, and miscellaneous author. From 1840-45 he was a midshipman in the royal navy, and consul at Barcelona 1868-73. Among his works are "Satire and Satirists" (1854), "Studies on Thackeray" (1869), the novels "Singleton Fontenoy" (1850), "Eustace Conyers" (1855), and crit ical e ays. Hannibal (han'i-bal). [Punic, 'grace of Baal'; L. Hannibal , F. Hannibal , Annibal , It. Annibale , Sp. Anibal .] Born 247 B. C.: committed suicide at Liby a, Bithynia, probably 183 в. с. A famous Cart hag in i an general, son of Hamilcar Barca. He accompanied his father to Spain about 238; succeeded Hasdrubal as commander of the army in 221; completed the conquest of Spain south of the Ebro 221219; besieged and took Saguntum in 219; cro ed the Alps, probably by way of the Little St. Bernard, in 218; gained the victories of the Ticino and the Trebia in 218, of Lake Trasimene in 217, and of Cannæ in 216; wintered at Capua 216-215; captured Tarentum in 212; marched against Rome in 211; and was recalled to Africa in 203. He was defeated by Scipio African us Major at Zama 202. He became the chief magistrate of Carthage, and about 195 was exiled to Syria, and later to Bithynia. Hannibal. A city in Marion County, Mi ouri, situated on the Mi i ippi in lat. 39° 44′ N., long. 91° 23′ W. It is an important railway, commercial, and manufacturing center. Population (1890), 12,857. Hannington (han'ing-ton), James. Born near Brighton, England, Sept. 3, 1847: killed near Lake Victoria Nyanza, Oct. 29, 1885. An English divine, bishop of eastern equatorial Africa. He sailed as a mi ionary for Africa in March, 1882, but shortly returned to England. He was appointed bishop, and returned to Africa in 1884. In 1885 he headed an expedition to open up a route to Victoria Nyanza. With a small party he reached the lake, but was captured by the natives and murdered. Hanno (han'ō). King of Gaza, one of the five confederate cities of the Philistines. He is often mentioned by the name of Hanunu in the A yrian inscriptions, and was involved in the conflict between As syria and Egypt, Gaza being the frontier fortre on the Egyptian highway barring the road to the south. He is first mentioned in the annals of Tiglath-Pileser III. (745727), against whom he rebelled, but at the approach of whose army (about 732) he fled to Egypt. Afterward he allied himself with Sabaco, the Ethiopian king of Egypt (the biblical So, A yrian Sabe), against Sargon II. (722-705), Hanover shared the defeat of Sabaco in the memorable battle of Raphia (720), and was carried captive to As syria. Hanno (han'ō). Lived probably in the 5th century B. c. A Cart hag in i an navigator who led a colonizing expedition to the western coast of Africa. An account of his voyage is extant in a Greek translation ("Periplus"). "In the flourishing times of Carthage" (no nearer date is known), Hanno and Himilco, two brothers belonging to the dominant clan of Mago, were despatched by the Senate to find new trading stations, and to found new colonies of the half-bred "Liby-Phœnician" population, from whose presence the State was always anxious to be freed. Each admiral was in command of a powerful fleet. Hanno was directed to go south from the Pillars of Hercules, and to skirt the African coast; Himilco was in like manner directed to keep to the coast of Spain. The records of both voyages were long preserved upon tablets in the temple of Moloch; and Hanno's account is still extant in a Greek translation. Himilco's tablet is lost, though it seems to have been extant as late as the fourth century of the Christian era; but its form is known from the "Periplus of Hanno," and its substance is, to some extent, preserved in the extracts of Avienus.