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  • He took 37 war elephants (and 46,000 men) with him when he left Iberia (Spain) through Europe to the start of the Alps. He lost most of them to skirmishes and bad weather etc. and apparently only had 3 elephants (and 26,000 men) left when he entered Italy. A sort of related fact is that a reportedly effective anti-elephant weapon was the pig. Pliny the Elder reported that "elephants are scared by the smallest squeal of a pig" (VIII, 1.27). A siege of Megara was reportedly broken when the Megarians poured oil on a herd of pigs, set them alight, and drove them towards the enemy's massed war elephants. The elephants bolted in terror from the flaming squealing pigs. (Pig facts from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_elephant ).
  • Hannibal took with him between 37 and 38 elephant altogether.

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