Year of the Elephant campaign

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The Year of the Elephant campaign was a famous pre-Islamic military expedition—traditionally dated to the year of the Prophet Muhammad’s birth—in which an Abyssinian army with war elephants marched on Mecca and, according to Islamic tradition, was miraculously destroyed before reaching the Kaaba.

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