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How many elephants were in hammurabi's troops when he crossed the alps?

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None because Hammurabi wasn't the Carthaginian leader who led the elephants across the Alps. The one who did it was Hannibal, who had somewhere around 40 elephants, varying from source to source, some claiming more, some claiming fewer.
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