Victor Hannibal

Alexander faced elephants at Gaugamela, then again at Hydaspes. Hannibal marched them across the Alps to strike Rome. Armies in Southeast Asia still rode them into battle as late as 1893.
Poachers now kill roughly 17,000 elephants a year for the ivory, close to one every half hour.
Three thousand years of conscription. For this war, Victor enlisted.