He was so successful that Hannibal of Carthage, who earned a name for himself by kicking ... 2,000 archers, 500 slingers, and 20 war elephants. Pyrrhus met the Romans at Heraclea that same year, where ...

No Carthaginian sources of any kind have survived ... Hannibal’s kid brother Hasdrubal followed him 11 years later and brought war elephants along, too. As you might have anticipated, there ...