Timeline for What kind of siege weapons were used during Punic wars?
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| Mar 11 at 12:28 | vote | accept | Jarek | ||
| Apr 26, 2014 at 2:32 | comment | added | Juicy | @T.E.D. To add to your comment, I can't seem to find the source now but I remember reading somewhere that those surviving elephants were not even used in battle. It seems to me that elephants were usually mostly for show as they were unreliable and frequently trampled the troops of the army that deployed them. | |
| Jul 17, 2012 at 14:40 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | Elephants weren't used in any significan numbers until Zama (in north Africa, which Carthage lost). The problem was that the Romans had naval superiority, so Hanibal had to march his army into Italy from Spain (over both the Pyranese and the Alps). Not many elephants were left by the time he debouched from the Alps. | |
| Jul 15, 2012 at 18:42 | history | answered | Bryce | CC BY-SA 3.0 |