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->''The Greek shall come against thee,\\
The conqueror of the East.\\
Beside him stalks to battle\\
The huge earth-shaking beast,\\
The beast on whom the castle\\
With all its guards doth stand,\\
The beast who hath between his eyes\\
The serpent for a hand.''
-->-- '''Sir Thomas Maculay''', "Lays of Ancient Rome"
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->"From out of the blizzard’s whitewash came three massive shapes, pounding forwards through the snow and ice, the ground reverberating with every titanic footfall of the monsters. They were giant, shaggy-hided beasts, each as tall as a castle wall. They had huge trunks of muscle extending from their wide heads, and one of them raised this prehensile limb to the heavens and again the terrifying trumpeting sound echoed across the battlefield. The immense beasts were quadrupeds, with large flapping, dark furred ears and beady eyes filled with burning rage, and each had four immense tusks that curved down to the ground. Atop the backs of these monsters were strapped immense howdahs of timber, their sides draped with furs and leathers and dotted with shields, and within these structures were dozens of warriors."
-->--'''A Bretonnian knight''' on Chaos War Mammoths, ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy''
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->Granted, most of Hannibal's elephants died while crossing the Alps - perhaps unsurprisingly - but it doesn't take a ''lot'' of elephants to have ''a scary amount of elephant'' on the battlefield.
-->--'''Blue''', ''WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsR-C9WtoKg History Summarized: The Roman Republic]]''

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->Granted, most of Hannibal's elephants died while crossing the Alps - -- perhaps unsurprisingly - -- but it doesn't take a ''lot'' of elephants to have ''a scary amount of elephant'' on the battlefield.
-->--'''Blue''', ''WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsR-C9WtoKg History Summarized: The Roman Republic]]''Republic]]''
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->Granted, most of Hannibal's elephants died while crossing the Alps - perhaps unsurprisingly - but it doesn't take a ''lot'' of elephants to have ''a scary amount of elephant'' on the battlefield.
-->--'''Blue''', ''WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsR-C9WtoKg History Summarized: The Roman Republic]]''

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