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Mansa Musa's Elephant Corps: War Beasts of the Sahel
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a little-known military innovation of the Mali Empire: Mansa Musa's use of war elephants. While Mansa Musa is famous for his pilgrimage and gold, his army also deployed elephants in battle, drawing on a long Sahelian tradition of elephant warfare. We discuss the training of these animals, their role in sieges and open-field combat, the logistical challenges of keeping them fed and healthy in the dry Sahel, and how they compared to the war elephants of India and Carthage. We also look at the decline of this practice after Mansa Musa's reign, as…
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