how many elephants did Hannibal cross the Alps with?

Answer 1

hannibal had 50,000 infantry 9,000 cavalry and 37 elephants, he marched to the rhone, avoided battle with scipio, and continued towards the alps which he crossed in about 15 days, with great difficulty, with a huge loss of life, the route he took remains uncertain.

Answer 2

According to the source below, he began with 37 and entered Italy with only 3. I can find no other corroboration of the final number, but in several accounts it is clear that he started with 37. Apparently, Carthage was very good at demanding an exact accounting of the beasts.
Despite his amazing trek across the Alps, the Romans were ready for him. Rome was able to beat Hannibal only by fighting a long war of attrition..
Even in the battle of Zama near Carthage, Hannibal would have won had it not been for the defection of his Numidian cavalry at the last minute, apparently due to a feud over the promise of land. Scipio rendered Hannibal's 100 elephants useless in the beginning and was able to use Hannibal's Cannae tactics against him due to Hannibal's lack of cavalry. Of course, winning this battle was how Scipio achieved the moniker "Africanus." Despite his loss, Hannibal was a bloody genius at tactics.

Answer 3

Rather than respond to Roman tactics, Hannibal decided to take the war directly to Rome. In September 219 BC he set out with an army of fifty thousand men and about forty elephants to cross the Alps. Despite heavy losses of men and animals to bad weather and hostile mountain tribesmen, Hannibal succeeded in his epic fifteen - day trek, and his better - trained and disciplined army defeated the unprepared Romans in the Battles of Ticinus and Trebia

Answer 4

first of all, woolly mammoths have been extinct for many hundreds of years. He had African elephants, as he became from Africa. Why on earth do you think of Carthaginians might have used Indian elephants? And specific, all of them iced over to dying. i do no longer think of a single one made it into Italy. that they had even nonetheless proved useful on quite a few activities earlier against the Romans. Elephants have been maximum useful against cavalry, as they tended to scare the horses. The Roman maniple formations adapted fairly actual while confronted with elephants after the preliminary marvel wore off.

Answer 5

i thought hannibal is a movie and he didn't cross the alps on elephants he went on a plane with one hand. haven't you seen the movie

Answer 6

Apparently 37 or 38, but of course, many died along the way since they also had to cross the Pyrenees as well. The cold, lack of food. and steep, narrow climbs contributed to the death of most of them. I can't find a resource thatsays how many survived.

Answer 7

He used a different number of elephants in different battles.

See here for details

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal

Answer 8

37, but many died during the travels

Answer 9

None ...they all died of cold

Answer 10

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