collective-history:Carthaginian war elephants engage Roman infantry at the Battle of Zama (202 BC).S
collective-history:Carthaginian war elephants engage Roman infantry at the Battle of Zama (202 BC).Source: Henri-Paul Motte Das Wissen des 20.Jahrhunderts, Bildungslexikon, Rheda 1931 This was the culminating battle of the 2nd Punic War, and I believe the 1st and only time Hannibal was defeated in an open battle by the Romans. The Carthaginians used African Pygmy elephants (now extinct), that were not nearly as large as the ones from India that started the elephant craze in Mediterranean warfare. -- source link
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