Persian war elephants
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Persian war elephants
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War elephants were used in Iranian military history, most notably in Achaemenid, Seleucid, and Sasanian periods. These were Asian elephants recruited from the southern provinces of Iran and India, but also possibly Syrian elephants from Syria and western Iran. The men sat in a large tower from which troops would fight. The elephant itself would normally be armed with thin plate armour and would bear a large crenelated wooden howdah on its back. Persian war elephants were trained by their rider,
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2024-04-11T13:17:53Z
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