1 Maccabees 6:36DRA

34And they shewed the elephants the blood of grapes, and mulberries to provoke them to fight.

35And they distributed the beasts by the legions: and there stood by every elephant a thousand men in coats of mail, and with helmets of brass on their heads: and five hundred horsemen set in order were chosen for every beast.

36These before the time wheresoever the beast was, the were there: and withersoever it went, they went, and they departed not from it.

37And upon the beast, there were strong wooden towers, which covered every one of them: and engines upon them: and upon every one thirty-two valiant men, who fought from above; and an Indian to rule the beast.

38And the rest of the horsemen he placed on this side and on that side at the two wings, with trumpets to stir up the army, and to hasten them forward that stood thick together in the legions thereof.