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*[http://community.webshots.com/photo/fullsize/2674157760103299705bRkabQ Drawing of "elephant drawn battery 1857"] with [http://news.webshots.com/photo/2674157760103299705bRkabQ details] Webshots.com (Album:"1857 - India's first war of independence")
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=6eoFnaqQ0MQC&pg=PA26 Photograph of a Royal Artillery elephant battery at Lucknow 1858] ''Victoria's Wars'', page 26 by Ian Frederick William Beckett 1998 Google Books
*[http://cgi.ebay.com/1858-ELEPHANT-BATTERY-MARCHING-SOLDIERS-WAR-OLD-PRINT-/360297297749?pt=Art_Prints&hash=item53e3647755 Drawing of "Elephant Battery on the March "] (Scroll scroll down for enlarged larger version) Ebay.com. Originally from ''The Illustrated London News'', Saturday, May 8, 1858*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3907822106/in/photostream Drawing of "Peshawur Mountain train in the line of March 1877"], showing guns loaded on the elephants' backs. flickr.com [http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PAKISTAN-Peshawar-Mountain-train-line-March-antique-print-1877-/270930093904 Another view] of the same image (scroll down for larger version) where it is stated to be from the Illustrated London News, however a page could not be located. ebay.co.uk
*[http://www.britishbattles.com/second-afghan-war/charasiab.htm Drawing of "An elephant battery advances through the mountains"] from The Battle of Charasiab 6th October 1879, [[2nd Afghan War]] (scroll down) Britishbattles.com
*[http://www.harappa.com/hawkshaw/11.html Photograph of "Elephant Battery 12/9 R.A. in action - Morar Gwalior, 1881"] from Major Hawkshaw’s [http://www.harappa.com/hawkshaw/intro.html India Album] Harappa.com
==External links==
* Victorian Wars Forum [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=6181#p24598 thread] by Frogsmile which dates and identifies two photographs (refer [[Artillery elephants#Photographs and drawings|above]]) and provides much additional information about elephant batteries.
*[http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=267290 Thread] about guns carried on top of elephants' backs. theminiaturespage.com
*[http://cbi-theater.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater/elephants/elephants.html Elephants at war, in Burma, World War 2] from "China - Burma - India: Remembering the Forgotten Theater of World War II"
