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I was seeing these Napoleonic depictions of artillery piece being transported on a donkey's back and never stopped wondering if they ever tried to fire directly
by thriftwy 3y ago
I was seeing these Napoleonic depictions of artillery piece being transported on a donkey's back and never stopped wondering if they ever tried to fire directly from that poor donkey's back.
- red_admiral 3y agoI think this is a good time to mention the elephant-mounted machine gun: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/elephant-mounted-machine-gun-1914/ https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/elephant-mounted-machine-gu... That's a real WW1 thing, not an Age of Empires 2 cheat code.
- mcv 3y agoAccording to the article, it wasn't a real thing, but only a publicity photo: > It’s probably a publicity picture, not something the army would actually try to employ. The elephant would not respond well to the sound of that machine gun a few inches from his ears.