ACOUP - War Elephant, Part III: Elephant Memories

To close out his series on war elephants, Bret looks at the role of war elephants off the battlefield in two contexts. First, the context as status and power symbols for Indian royalty (and related kingships influenced by India). And then, the context of the role war elephants play in popular western historical and fantasy fiction, and how they came to be placed in that role.

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