The infantry consisted of Libyan-Phoenicians, people, moulded as a result of Libyan land colonization by Phoenicians, was the basis of Carthaginian army. Libyan-Phoenician infantry was armed after the Hellenistic pattern. The heavy infantry wor...
The armies of Alexander first encountered elephants when they engaged the army of Emperor Por of India. The fighting towers were first put into use by Pyrrhus, the King Epirus. Since then, elephants with fighting towers were adopted by almost a...