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With a huge army, with hundreds of horses, and with twenty elephants, Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, crossed over from Greece to Italy to conquer the Romans.

No elephants had ever before been seen in Italy; and when the two armies met, and the huge animals advanced with their dark trunks curling and snorting, and their ponderous feet shaking the earth, the horses in the Roman army were so terrified that they refused to move, and Pyrrhus won an easy victory.

After the battle was over Pyrrhus walked amongst the dead, and looked at the bodies of his slain foes.

As he did so, one fact struck him very forcibly, and it was this, the Romans did not know how to run away.

Not one had turned and fled from the field of battle.