5. War Elephants
They are trained by man for combat.
Their main purpose was to crush and stamp the enemy.
They were probably first employed in India, the practice spreading out across south-east Asia and westwards into the Mediterranean.
Their most famous use in the West was by the Greek general Pyrrhus of Epirus and in great numbers by the armies of Carthage, especially under Hannibal.
In the east, where supplies of animals were greater and the terrain ideal, it was the advent of cannon that finally concluded the use of the combat elephant at the end of the 19th century, limiting them thereafter to engineering and labour roles.
