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Riding War Elephant

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Title: Riding War Elephant

Caption: Artist rendering of an elephant battle in antiquity from the Picture Atlas by Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus. No date or location given. The elephant armored with a howdah wears a head plate with a spike. The trunk is protected with movable plates and the whole body is covered with a coat of mail in the style of a knight. A war elephant was an elephant trained and guided by humans for combat. Their main use was to charge the enemy, trampling them and breaking their ranks. A division of war elephants is known as elephantry. They were first employed in India, the practice spreading out across south-east Asia and westwards into the Mediterranean.

Category: ILLUSTRATION • black & white • History: Ancient

Credit: Album / Science Source / New York Public Library

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Image size: 3827 × 2977 px | 32.6 MB

Print size: 32.4 × 25.2 cm | 1506.7 × 1172.0 in (300 dpi)

Keywords: ANTIQUITY • ARMES • ARMORED ELEPHANT • ARMS • ART • ARTWORK • BATTLE • BATTLEFIELD • BLACK & WHITE • BOW AND ARROWS • BW • CHARGE THE ENEMY • COAT OF MAIL • DRAWING • ELEPHANT BATTLE • ELEPHANTRY • ENGRAVING • FIGHTING • GUERRA • HEAD PLATE • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • HISTORY: ANCIENT • HOWDAH • HUNDRED YEARS WAR • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • ILUSTRATION • MOUNTED ON HORSE • ON HORSEBACK • RIDING HORSE • SADDLE HORSE • SHIELD • SOLDIERS • SPEARS • SPIKE • STYLE OF KNIGHT • TRAINED ELEPHANT • TRAMPLE THE ENEMY • WAR ELEPHANT • WAR • WARFARE • WARS • WEAPON • WEAPONARY • WEAPONRY • WEAPONS