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placeA species of large mammals native to Africa and Asia, used by Hannibal in his famous crossing of the Alps.
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569. Hannibal: Elephants Cross the Alps (Part 2)
Weigh Hannibal in the Scales. How many pounds will that peerless general mark up today? This is the man, for whom Africa was too small a continent, though it stretched from the surf-beaten ocean shores of Morocco east to the steamy Nile, to Ethiopian tribesmen and the uncharted habitats of elephants. Now Spain swells his empire, now he surmounts the Pyrenees.