Ep. 01 The Age of the War-Elephant
Yuddha - The Indian Military History Podcast
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How Did the Romans Train the Elephants?
In the mediaeval indianon, elephants were used to train infantry. They would have been taught how to trample their women and what part of a man to pick up or cut. The best elephant is about forty years old,. seven cubits high and is nine cubits long. It had different grades according to the kinds of rations it got from its diet. And we are supposed to have been trained in war for something like this. So i think a lot of the objections that the romans come up to against war elephants, the idea that oli require is trained infantry to despatch them, are kind of put to the test in the mediaevalindianon.
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