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Where war elephants were once used (lemmy.nz)
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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yep.

Although any reasonably large cargo boat should be able to carry an elephant, anyway. That would be how the Romans did it in Britain.

Edit: Maybe? Apparently the only source on that episode is from much later.