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The King of Siam offered to supply elephants to Abraham Lincoln, who politely declined his offer. What if Lincoln had accepted? Would elephants have made a difference? In what way?
then the difference in climates
We would have threads along the line of "The unfair advantage of Union Elephants" or would Meade won Gettysburg without that Elephant change.The King of Siam offered to supply elephants to Abraham Lincoln, who politely declined his offer. What if Lincoln had accepted? Would elephants have made a difference? In what way?
I wonder what the elephant's reaction was/would have been if that machine gun was actually fired. Especially since neither it nor the man are secured in any way.
The King of Siam offered to supply elephants to Abraham Lincoln, who politely declined his offer. What if Lincoln had accepted? Would elephants have made a difference? In what way?
Elephants eat about 500 lbs of food a day or about the ration equivalent of at least 150 men or so. I'd take 150 men over an elephant
Cover 'em with sheet iron and you have the first, non-rail constrained, 'Land Monitor'... I believe it would have had more physiological effect than tactical value...
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This can cut both ways. Elephants are extremely easily spooked. I can just imagine a herd of them demolishing everything around them first during a cannonade.
Pretty sure they did not have canons in Siam