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No because elephants move to slow and to big.

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The bigness was the very reason that elephants came to be used - they were the battle tanks of the olden era.

The reason they were not used at Thermopylai was that neither the Greek nor Persians had adopted their use at that stage - they came into common use a couple of centuries later.

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