Events Tagged: "elephants"

Treaty with Seleucus - Chandragupta gains Afghanistan and Baluchistan, gives 500 war elephants, marries Seleucid princess

Battle of Ipsus - war elephants decide battle, Antigonus dies, Hellenistic kingdoms stabilized

Pyrrhus invades Italy - Greek king brings war elephants to help Tarentum, defeats Romans at Heraclea

Battle of Asculum - Pyrrhus wins but loses best troops, 'one more such victory and I am lost' - origin of 'Pyrrhic victory'

Hannibal crosses Alps - leads 40,000 men and 37 elephants over Alps in winter, arrives in Italy with half his force

Battle of Beth Zur - Judah defeats Lysias's army with war elephants, path to Jerusalem opens