See the elephant, to

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See the elephant, to

To experience combat for the first time.

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Gerald Conti, in a 1984 article in Civil War Times Illustrated, suggests
that the earliest possible source of the saying goes back to the third
century B.C. when Alexander the Great's soldiers defeated King Porus'
elephant -borne troops in the Indus Valley.
Chuck in Il.