And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Scipio used war elephants at the siege of Numantia in Spain, just as overkill. And the reason Britain is shown is because emperor Claudius rode a war elephant through London to overawe the natives during the conquest.
"Mûmakil (known in Westron as Oliphaunts) were large creatures resembling elephants, often used in battle by the Haradrim. Oliphaunt was the name given to them by Hobbits." This is a scene from Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" when Samwise Gamgee climbed a tree to see the "Oliphaunt." You can see him on the limb of the large tree to the right in this picture.
Positive proof that you must have elephants before you can have War Elephants.
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Scipio used war elephants at the siege of Numantia in Spain, just as overkill. And the reason Britain is shown is because emperor Claudius rode a war elephant through London to overawe the natives during the conquest.
ReplyDelete"Mûmakil (known in Westron as Oliphaunts) were large creatures resembling elephants, often used in battle by the Haradrim. Oliphaunt was the name given to them by Hobbits."
ReplyDeleteThis is a scene from Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" when Samwise Gamgee climbed a tree to see the "Oliphaunt."
You can see him on the limb of the large tree to the right in this picture.
right outta Middle Earth.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't have enough elephants in Australia.
ReplyDeleteCould use these along the Rio Grande.
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