Cover: This picture shows the elephants on rafts covered with earth being ferried across the Rhone River. The painting is inaccurate in showing that the elephants have towers. Most coins with elephants as subjects minted in Carthage and Italy from the period show that the elephants were rather small, around nine feet tall at the hip. Due to this small size they would be unable to bear a tower. (From Guizot's L'Histoire de France, 1870)