The fearsome 6,000 war elephants of the Nanda Army led to mutiny among Alexander the Great’s battle-weary troops.

Alexander the Great first came across the impressive ... Since he controlled the route to India, from whence all war elephants came, he could prevent his enemies from amassing their own elephant ...

Alexander the Great had died about a century earlier ... This particular skirmish involved war elephants. The University of Illinois recounts the scene: Ptolemy had 73 African war elephants ...

On ancient battlegrounds If there was one ancient general who was the most instrumental in the spread of elephants as a weapon of war, it was probably Alexander the Great. The ancient king first ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from ... a mountain, a river, war elephants, scythed chariots. Everything that was thrown at him, ...

It was the arrival of the cannon in the 19th century that finally heralded the end of elephants being used as an instrument of war ... with Alexander the Great winning a decisive victory against ...

“You could argue the legacy was `great’ because he laid ... his death in 323 B.C. Like Achilles, Alexander was ferocious, undeterred by war elephants at the Battle of the River Hydaspes ...

The knights of Alexander the Great spear elephants in this illumination ... The Carthaginian general Hannibal famously followed up with 37 war elephants that he marched across the Alps decades ...

did indeed use war elephants. So, how did they acquire and deploy them in battle – and how did the Romans respond? Alexander the Great brought elephants back to the Mediterranean world after ...