List of historical elephants - Definition and Overview

Historical elephants

Hannibal's war elephants -- In 218 BC, Hannibal crossed the Alps with 37 elephants in the Second Punic War. Surus (the Syrian) is mentioned as the bravest elephant in the army by Marcus Porcius Cato, the elder in his book Origines.
Abul-Abbas - Charlemagne's elephant
Hanno - pet elephant of Pope Leo X
Jumbo - P. T. Barnum's elephant
Kandula - the most famous elephant in Sri Lanka was given to an infant prince Dutu Gemunu (or Duttagamini) in the 2nd century B.C. The king and his elephant grew up together. A Sri Lankan elephant born in 2000 at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. is named after Kandula.
Mary - For reasons unknown, Mary, touring with Charles H. Sparks's World Famous Show, killed her inexperienced keeper Walter "Red" Eldridge on September 12, 1916, and was executed for that "crime" on September 13, 1916 in Erwin, Tennessee by being hanged by a railroad derrick car at the Clinchfield Railroad yard. The first attempt failed, as the chain suspending her snapped, and she dropped to the ground, breaking a hip. She was resuspended, and died.
Topsy - tortured elephant on Coney Island, electrocuted by Thomas Edison
Tuffi - a young elephant who fell from Wuppertal's suspended monorail into the river Wupper on July 21, 1950 (she survived the fall)
Lin Wang - a Burmese elephant that served with the Chinese Expeditionary Force during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and later moved to Taiwan with the Kuomintang army. Lin Wang became a fond childhood memory among many Taiwanese.