[MR] Wikipedia: War Elephants
Garth Groff via Atlantia
atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Sat Jan 23 02:12:11 PST 2016
Noble Friends,
In China on this day in 971 , the war elephant corps of the Southern Han
were soundly defeated at the Battle of Shao by crossbow fire from Song
dynasty troops. We don't usually pay attention to things that happened
in the non-European part of the Knowne World, but this was too good to
pass up. Wikipedia has a long page on war elephants and their use
throughout history. It wasn't just Hannibal, you know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_elephant .
And who cleaned up after Hannibal's elephants crossed the Alps?
Yours Aye,
Lord Mungo Napier, That Crazy Scot
More information about the Atlantia
mailing list