
33 Strategies Of War (Part 2)
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The Elephant, the Greatest Greek Warrior
War broke out between the city of tarentum on italy's east coast and rome in 281 b c. Tarentum had sunk roman ships, and that pissed Rome off pretty handily. So they called on king pirus of epirus a, one of the greatest greek warriors of time. Pyrus was outnumbered at the point, and they were almost at the point of defeat. That's when he whipped out the elephants. The elephants came storming out. And the romans like, what the hell is this? They'd never seen these elephants before. But then so the eagle. Nickname is perus the eagle. He won this great victory, and
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