The fearsome 6,000 war elephants of the Nanda Army led to mutiny among Alexander the Great’s battle-weary troops. Horrifically, elephants were also used to crush captured enemies, spreading ...

Included in his ranks were 40 war elephants, a military strategy that has gone down in history as brilliant, bold, and innovative. The massive creatures helped Hannibal and his army triumph over ...

In fact, elephants were used in war until the end of the 19th century, when cannon warfare made them easy to target and knock down. "One of the most famous occasions goes back to ancient history ...

But in the fourth century B.C., when Alexander the Great’s successors brought war elephants from India, the animals’ trumpeting threw horses into a frenzy. Alexander had learned from King ...

The Carthaginian general Hannibal famously followed up with 37 war elephants that he marched across the Alps decades later during the Second Punic War, from 218 to 201 B.C. After the fall of the ...