• lemmylommy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    5 months ago

    Grey as a mouse,

    Big as a house,

    Nose like a snake,

    I make the earth shake,

    As I tramp through the grass;

    Trees crack as I pass.

    With horns in my mouth

    I walk in the South,

    Flapping big ears.

    Beyond count of years

    I stump round and round,

    Never lie on the ground,

    Not even to die.

    Oliphaunt am I,

    Biggest of all,

    Huge, old, and tall.

    If ever you’d meet me

    You wouldn’t forget me.

    If you never do,

    You won’t think I’m true;

    But old Oliphaunt am I,

    And I never lie.

  • nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyzEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    This map isn’t accurate, for example elephants where used in an attack on Saudi Arabia (mecca) by aksumites, the same guys who invaded the southern bit of the Arabian peninsula

    • meep_launcher@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Careful pal, I’m a mod who rules this map meme sub with an iron fist. Watch what you say or you’re going to map jail, for map crimes. 😡

  • Skua@kbin.earth
    3·
    3 months ago

    There are two accounts of Greek historians describing the usage of war elephants in Britain by the Roman empire. Cassius Dio says that Claudius used them in 43 CE, and Polyaenus says that Julius Caesar did in 54 BCE. These accounts are both very brief and have not been backed uo by any physical evidence or other accounts of the same situation. Not even Caesar, a prolific author himself, says that he used elephants in Britain

    It would be fucking wild if it did happen though. That elephant would have travelled farther than nearly any human alive at the time