User blog comment:Tesla Man/Rise of the TDBU: Alexander the Great versus Xerxes/@comment-422690-20120320173747/@comment-2006360-20120328101020

That;s a good point, since Hannibal, despite his appearance as having a huge invasion horde of elephants, only had 2 elephants left after the Alps, and almost every Roman army he fought in those nearly 20 years in Italy actually outnumbered him.