Second Anglo-Burmese War Elephant brigade, at Moulmein. Wood engraved print, 1853
Thursday, September 22, 2011
War Elephants
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Wade G. Burck
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5 comments:
Very interesting info on war elephants...
Thanks for posting!
Cindy Potter
Cindy,
The use of elephants as military animals is a very interesting subject, and one in which very little is written or documented with actual photo's. It is hard to imagine them being of any real value, aside from the psychological impact of their size. Often they caused as much damage to "their" side as they inflicted on the enemy.
Wade
I can certainly understand that!
What type of weapons were used in that era? Were the elephants less likely to be "affected" by the "ammunition" used? (assuming that the fire power - if any - was rather primitive...?)
:-)
Cindy
Cindy,
Fire power or not, I should think thousands of screaming warrior's, horses and the general chaos of battle would be unsettling for the elephants. Often why it has been noted they turned and ran through their own armies. The funny thing is, as intelligent and aware as the "do gooders" would have us believe, you would think they would have known better.
Wade
True!!!
CP
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