Hamilcar
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Hamilcar. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the name of several Cathaginian generals, of whom the most celebrated was Hamilcar, surnamed Barca (the lightning), the father of the great Hannibal. While quite a young man he was appointed to the command of the Carthaginian forces in Sicily, in the 18th year of the first Punic War, 247 B. c., when the Romans . were masters of almost the whole island For two years he defied all the efforts of the Romans to dislodge him; but the Carthaginian admiral, Hanno, having been totally defeated off the Ægates, 241 B. C., he reluctantly consented to evacuate Sicily. A revolt of the returned troops, joined by the native Africans, successfully repressed by Hamilcar. was He then entered on a series of campaigns in Spain, where he founded a new empire for Carthage. Here he passed nine years, and had brought the whole southern and eastern part of the country under Carthaginian rule when he was slain in battle against the Vettones, 229 B. C. His great design of making Spain a point of attack against Rome was ably carried out by his son Hannibal.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
ha-mil'kar, a noted Carthaginian general. He was the hero of the First Punic War. He led the Carthaginian forces in Sicily against the Romans, and suppressed an uprising of the hired forces of Carthage at home. In order to gain possession of the mines of Spain, with which to wage war against Rome, he began the reduction of Spain to a Carthaginian province. When about to leave for Spain he caused his son Hannibal to stand before the altar and swear eternal enmity to Rome. In 228 B. C. he fell in battle with one of the native tribes of Spain. See Hannibal; Carthage