To: BobL; mairdie
They wouldn't let him through because the elephants exceeded the height requirements of the tunnel. That's one reason Hannibal was so pissed.
20 posted on
02/18/2018 9:21:00 AM PST by
Jim W N
To: Jim 0216
Good point! Or they had some damn toll collector who wouldn’t give them a volume break. (maybe an ancestor of one of those toll road shills here)
25 posted on
02/18/2018 9:33:07 AM PST by
BobL
(I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
To: Jim 0216
IIRC, none of Hannibal’s elephants survived the Alps passage.
28 posted on
02/18/2018 9:43:31 AM PST by
elcid1970
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