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The elephant battery in Peshawar During World War I, elephants pulled heavy equipment. This one worked in a munitions yard in Sheffield. An elephant pulling a Supermarine Walrus aircraft, India, June 1944. With the advent of gunpowder warfare in the late 15th century, the balance of advantage for war elephants on the battlefield began to change.
The military of Carthage was one of the largest military forces in the ancient world.Although Carthage's navy was always its main military force, the army acquired a key role in the spread of Carthaginian power over the native peoples of northern Africa and southern Iberian Peninsula from the 6th century BC and the 3rd century BC.
[2] [5] Other names for this animal include the North African forest elephant, [6] [7] Carthaginian elephant, [5] [8] and Atlas elephant. [ citation needed ] Its natural range probably extended along the coast of the Red Sea , in what is now Egypt , Sudan , and Eritrea , [ 7 ] [ 5 ] but it may have extended further across northern Africa.
Denzel Washington being cast in Antoine Fuqua’s upcoming Netflix movie as ancient Carthaginian general Hannibal is sparking some controversy in Tunisia, the home country of the great military ...
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A Carthaginian army of 50,000 infantry, 6,000 cavalry and 60 elephants attempted to lift the siege in 262 BC, but was badly defeated at the battle of Akragas. That night the Carthaginian garrison escaped and the Romans seized the city and its inhabitants, selling 25,000 of them into slavery .
The name Carthage (/ ˈ k ɑːr θ ɪ dʒ / KAR-thij) is the Early Modern anglicisation of Middle French Carthage /kartaʒə/, [12] from Latin Carthāgō and Karthāgō (cf. Greek Karkhēdōn (Καρχηδών) and Etruscan *Carθaza) from the Punic qrt-ḥdšt (𐤒𐤓𐤕 𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕 ) "new city", [b] implying it was a "new Tyre". [14]
Punic sacred prostitution is mentioned by Latin author Valerius Maximus, who describes how Carthaginian women gained gifts by engaging in prostitution with visitors at Sicca Veneria. [25] Various Greek and Roman sources describe and criticize the Carthaginian practice of sacrificing children by burning. Many ancient Greek and Latin authors ...