JABAL-US-SARAJ, Nov 9: Hannibal of Carthage used elephants to battle the Romans, the US Navy trained dolphins to protect submarines and now opposition forces on horseback have attacked Taliban ...

JABAL-US-SARAJ, Nov 9: Hannibal of Carthage used elephants to battle the Romans, the US Navy trained dolphins to protect submarines and now opposition forces on horseback have attacked Taliban ...

Ever since Hannibal of Carthage crossed the Alps using elephants, and Alexander the Great rode into battle astride his magnificent steed, Bucephalus, animals have served important roles in warfare.

He was so successful that Hannibal of Carthage, who earned a name for ... the Romans built that were meant to counter his war elephants. When the battle started, however, the wagons proved useless.

The elephants, though ... two met in the climactic Battle of Zama in 202 B.C. Hannibal lost the battle and the war. Carthage ceded to Rome all its territories outside Africa and disbanded its ...

Carthaginian general Hannibal is legendary for bringing tens of thousands of soldiers, cavalrymen, and thousands of horses, mules and African elephants ... between Rome and Carthage, show how ...