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Hannibal Barca crossing the Rhône, a photogravure print by Henri Motte, 1878.
(U.S. Naval Institute Photo Archive)
In the millennia that have followed, the use of elephants in naval warfare has not accounted to much certain films, of course, excepted. But that has not stopped pachydermous photographs from appearing in the Naval Institute s Photo Archive for one reason or another.
The selection that follows shows some of the interactions naval personnel have had over the years with the elephants they ve encountered in their travels.
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