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He invaded Egypt in massive strength, with chariots and elephants (and cavalry) and a large fleet. (1 Maccabees 1, 17)
To him Antiochus made over half his forces, with the elephants, giving him instructions about what he wanted done, particularly with regard to the inhabitants of Judaea and Jerusalem, (1 Maccabees 3, 34)
His forces numbered a hundred thousand foot soldiers, twenty thousand cavalry and thirty-two elephants with experience of battle conditions. (1 Maccabees 6, 30)
The elephants were given a syrup of grapes and mulberries to prepare them for the battle. (1 Maccabees 6, 34)
Eleazar, called Avaran, noticing that one of the elephants was royally caparisoned and was also taller than all the others, and supposing that the king was mounted on it, (1 Maccabees 6, 43)
while Antiochus the Great, king of Asia, who had advanced to attack them with a hundred and twenty elephants, cavalry, chariots and a very large army, had also suffered defeat at their hands; (1 Maccabees 8, 6)
Trypho captured the elephants and seized Antioch. (1 Maccabees 11, 56)
he took no account at all of the power of God, being sublimely confident in his tens of thousands of infantrymen, his thousands of cavalry, and his eighty elephants. (2 Maccabees 11, 4)
and with him Lysias his tutor and chief minister; he had moreover a Greek force of one hundred and ten thousand infantry, five thousand three hundred cavalry, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots fitted with scythes. (2 Maccabees 13, 2)
Giving his men the password 'Victory from God', he made a night attack on the king's pavilion with a picked band of the bravest young men. Inside the camp he destroyed about two thousand, and his men cut down the largest of the elephants with its mahout; (2 Maccabees 13, 15)
The latter at once selected Nicanor, then commander of the elephants, promoted him to the command of Judaea and despatched him (2 Maccabees 14, 12)
Everyone now awaited the coming issue. The enemy had already concentrated their forces and stood formed up in order of battle, with the elephants drawn up in a strategic position and the cavalry disposed on the wings. (2 Maccabees 15, 20)
