[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




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