
Ancient Mediterranean
A Panicked Elephant and a Roof Tile Ended Pyrrhus
He had beaten Rome twice, but a single war elephant—panicked, untrained, and rampaging through his own lines—ended the campaign that was supposed to destroy the Republic.
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