Where War Elephants Were Used Throughout History
Posted by vladgrinch
Where War Elephants Were Used Throughout History
Posted by vladgrinch
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lets address the elephant in the room
Big Elephant running about Edinburgh causing havoc.
Is this an Abul Abbas reference
When were elephants used in Denmark?
Ireland huh?
When the fuck was an elephant used in Ireland for war?
Please provide proof of war elephants being used in Ireland.
From an Irish guy
Yea were gonna need more context here lmfao
Romans remembering the punic wars
I would place a pretty large bet on there never having been a single war elephant in Ireland.
US could have been highlighted but Lincoln turned down the King of Siam’s offer of elephants. [https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/lincoln-rejects-king-siams-offer-elephants](https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/lincoln-rejects-king-siams-offer-elephants)
Why is northern Greece and the Balkans red, but southern Greece is yellow?
Hannibal’s Italian campaign shows how badly these things could misfire — 37 elephants crossed the Alps, but altitude, cold, and disease killed most of them before any major engagement. Only one elephant survived the full Italian campaign. The Romans eventually figured out that wounded elephants would panic and trample their own side, which became standard countermeasure.
Funny enough, during US Civil War Kingdom of Siam support the Union and gifted a few(?) War Elephant for use in the battle. Lincoln actually responded, thank for the support but stated that the logistic of transporting Elephant across an ocean and the practical use of it during a gunpowder era, especially when guns are getting way more accurate, isn’t viable. Now this is just what I remember so I don’t really remember if the elephants get send to the US or not but they were definitely not participating in any battle. Still, a funny story.
Also, South Asia continue to use Elephants in combat even in the gunpowder era, with the twilight years serving as a mobile gun battery (Most uses horses to draw them while Elephant actually travel better in Jungle landscape and also serves as a platform for smaller caliber artillery and machine gun) They were basically an early, bio version of Tank or Armored vehicle.
Now do camels! You’d have to color in Texas Arizona new Mexico for the USA
they were used in mecca too according to islamic sources
Imagine being a Roman soldier from some quiet village, marching into battle, and suddenly a massive, armor-clad tank with a trunk comes charging at you at 20 mph. The sheer psychological terror alone must have been insane.
If only Lincoln had listened to the king of Siam we could’ve colored the south yellow
So according to this map, there have been war elephants used in Britain, Ireland, Denmark, Holland and other places in Northern Europe. I’m gonna call BS on this map.
In the possibility that civil war breaks out in the USA, I hope there is a zoo keeper willing to expand this map!