Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 187
utterly routed the cavalry ofCyrus. Ctesias also tells us that this Indianking went to war with ten thousand elephants.All this happened four hundred and fifty yearsbefore the Christian era; and how many yearsbefore this elephants were used in warfare wecan only guess. Pliny and Arrian tell us… … A BRIDGE OF ELEPHANTS. (SEE NEXT PAGE.) Alexander was one of the first of the famouskings of history to tell of fighting against an elephant host. His invading army had reachedthe river Hydaspes, and as the warriors lookedacross they beheld the opposing army of KingPorus, who had not only chariots…
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