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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (771672)2/26/2014 9:12:01 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 1575537
 
According to 1 Maccabees 6:43-46, during the Battle of Beth-zechariah, Eleazar identified a war elephant that he believed to carry the Seleucid King Antiochus V, due to the special armor the elephant wore. He decided to endanger his life by attacking the elephant and thrusting a spear into its belly. The dead elephant then collapsed upon Eleazar, killing him as well. [1] Despite this heroic effort, the smaller Jewish army was defeated in the battle. Josephus wrote that Eleazar, though killing many enemy soldiers, did not gain any real effect besides the name he made for himself. Another version of this story appears on the scroll of Antiochus, in which it is told that Eleazar was stamped on by a horde of elephants. King Antiochus V did almost certainly not participate in the battle, as he was only a young boy - and there are no other accounts of Hellenistic kings riding elephants in battle
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