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*[http://cgi.ebay.com/Military-India-Elephants-Heavy-Field-Battery-1892-print-/300421854059?pt=Art_Prints&hash=item45f289b36b Drawing of "The Elephants of the Heavy Field Battery 1892"] (scroll down for enlarged version) Ebay.com. Originally from ''The Graphic'' 1892
*[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"
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==Also see==
*[[Commissariat]], or Army Supply. This Department was responsible for elephants.
==Photographs and drawings==
*[httphttps://collections.royalarmouries.org/indexobject/rac-object-1761.php?a=wordsearch&s=gallery&w=elephant+armour&go=GO html Photographs of elephant Elephant armour from 1600] with a [http://www.royalarmouries.org/visit(bargustavan-us/leeds/leedsi-galleries/oriental/visitpil) (17th century -us/leeds/leeds-galleries/oriental/india/single-object/2 description18th century)] Click on Media for additional photographs. Royal Armouries, Leeds, UK*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150319050741/http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/px2d10.jpg "An Artillery Elephant on Duty"], hand-coloured lithograph by Captain C. Gold; 1799 from [https://web.archive.org/web/20150128013125/http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap2.htm British Voices from South Asia] Louisiana State University, now archived webpages.*[httphttps://communitycollection.webshotsnam.comac.uk/photo/fullsize/2674157760103299705bRkabQ Drawing of "detail.php?acc=1956-08-6-17 An elephant drawn battery 1857"pulling a field gun, 1858] with [http://newsPhotograph by Felice Beato NAM.webshots.com/photo/2674157760103299705bRkabQ details] Webshots.com (Album:"1857 1956-08-6- India's first war of independence") *[http://books17.googleNational Army Museum.com/books?id=6eoFnaqQ0MQC&pg=PA26 Photograph of Previously elsewhere identified as a Royal Artillery elephant battery at Lucknow 1858] <ref>''Victoria's Wars'', page 26 by Ian Frederick William Beckett 1998 previously available online on Google Books, now unavailable online. The same </ref>*[httphttps://wwwrepository.namlibrary.acbrown.uk/online-collection/imagesedu/480studio/105000-105999item/105876.jpg photograph] is also available at the National Army Museum with these [httpbdr:234081//www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?q=searchType%3Dsimple%26simpleText%3Dindian%2520mutiny%26themeID%3D%26resultsDisplay%3Dlist%26page%3D6&pos=17&total=299&page=6&acc=1956-08-6-17 details] *[http Charcoal and watercolor drawing://cgi"Indian elephant artillery battery, c.ebay.com/1858-ELEPHANT-BATTERY-MARCHING-SOLDIERS-WAR-OLD-PRINT-/360297297749?pt=Art_Prints&hash=item53e3647755 Drawing of "Elephant Battery on the March 1860"] (scroll down for larger version) Ebay by George Bryant Campion. Brown Digital Repository.comBrown University Library. 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 *[httphttps://www.ebaybritishbattles.co.ukcom/wp-content/uploads/2017/itm12/PAKISTAN16-PeshawarElephant-Mountain-train-line-March-antique-print-1877-/270930093904 Another viewbattery.jpg Drawing: Royal Artillery Elephant Battery: Battle of Charasiab] 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
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924000918486#page/n65/mode/2up Drawing of a "Shaft Elephant of Heavy Field Battery Gun (from the Artillery Manual)"] , between pages lii and liii of the Introduction in ''A manual of the diseases of the elephant and of his management and uses'' by John Henry Steel 1885 Archive.org
*[httphttps://wwwweb.cqoutarchive.comorg/web/20130905003317/show.asp?u=http%3A://www.old-print.com/mas_assets/full2/M1321885/M1321885445.jpg Drawings of an elephant battery at Tongo, Burma 1885] with guns loaded on the elephants’ backs. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131116224320/http://www.cqoutold-print.com/cgi-bin/item.asp?id=10168438 CQout/M1321885445/search/16%252DAntique%252DPrint%252Dof%252D1885%252DBurma%252DElephant%252DBattery%252DTongo%252DIndia%252DAnimals%252D old-print.com] (archived page) Originally from ''The Graphic'' Saturday, October 24, 1885*[https://www.facebook.com/archive150/photos_stream#!/photo.php?fbid=582985135059902&set=pb.301806946511057.-2207520000.1368451730.&type=3&theater Photograph: c 1880s: Elephants pulling guns on GT Road, Punjab] Archive150 on Facebook
*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/britishrule/troops/elephants1880s.jpg Photograph of "The Elephant Battery, Artillery Lines, Peshawar" c.1880's] from [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/britishrule/troops/troops.html this page] of Prof Fran Pritchett’s Indian Routes website
*[http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3b25942/ Photograph of "Elephant battery of heavy artillery along the Khyber Pass at Campbellpur, 1895"] with [http://lccn.loc.gov/2004707363 details] Library of Congress
*[http://bookswww.googlebonhams.com/books?id=6QXYfAi0FUsC&pg=PA18 auctions/16854/lot/339 Photograph of an elephant battery during the Pathan Revolt Elephant Battery Tirah Campaign 1897], with guns loaded bonhams.com. Click on the elephant backssmall picture to enlarge. ''The British Army on From an album of views of the Tirah Campaign 4 1882-1902'', page 18 by Michael Barthorp 1988 Google Books*[http://indiasfirstwarofindependance1857.blogspot.com/2010/09/elephant-heavy-field-battery-at-mhow.html Photograph of an elephant heavy field battery at Mhow,1897] Indiasfirstwarofindependance1857.blogspot.com*[http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/defaultDetails.aspaspx?resource&ResourceID=6145 Photograph of "Elephant Battery on Parade, Jhansi, India c 1899"] Staffordshire Past-Track*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150925230931/http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargementstock-photo/rights-managed/HU052533.html /elephant-battery Photograph of "Elephant Battery Gwalior c 1935"] Heavy artillery is transported to a hill station by a team of Indian elephants. Corbis Images. , now an archived webpage, Gwalior was a [[Princely states|Princely State]]* An elephant battery: [http://imgzoomark.cdlib.org/Fullscreen.ics?ark=ark:/13030/kt2n39r2zq/z1&order=2&brand=calisphere kt158026wp Photograph 1] and [http://imgzoomark.cdlib.org/Fullscreen.ics?ark=ark:/13030/kt6199r6rv/z1&order=2&brand=calisphere kt2n39r2zq photograph 2] from [http://content.cdlib.org/search?facet=type-tab&relation=calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu&style=cui&keyword=Military+elephants+india&x=35&y=12 a group of photographs, University of California]. Identified as a British Heavy Battery of around 1895, refer [[Artillery elephants#External links|External links]] below.*Victorian Wars Forum [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20200825055742if_/https://www.victorianwarsabebooks.com/viewtopic.php?fRoyal-Artillery-Eastern-Division-Campbellpore-Circa/12032399242/bd#&gid=211&tpid=7023#p31219 post1 Photograph: Royal Artillery, No 12 Eastern Division at Campbellpore, Circa 1895, Showing the Heavy Guns Pulled By Pairs of Elephants] with , archived webpage.*[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:40_Pounder_RML_-_Elephant_battery,_1900.jpg 40 Pounder Rifled Muzzle Loading (RML) gun of a number Royal Artillery elephant battery, India]. From the ''Navy and Army Illustrated'', published 1900. wikimedia.org*[https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-british-indian-army-royal-artillery-elephant-unit-about-1905-88275985.html British Indian Army: Royal Artillery elephant unit about 1905] and [https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-british-indian-army-members-of images -a-royal-artillery-elephant-battery-88275983.html British Indian Army: Members of Army elephantsa Royal Artillery elephant battery about 1905] alamy.com
==Historical books online==
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=HLOXvhmYeNIC&pg=RA4-PA404 "Elephant"] ''Aide-mémoire to the military sciences: Framed from contributions of officers of the different services, Volume 1'', page 404 Edited by a Committee of the Corps of Royal Engineers 1853 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=G8APAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA392#v=onepage&q=%22elephant%20battery%22&f=false "Elephant Battery"] ''The Musical World'', Volumes 19-20 1858, page 392 originally appeared in the ''Illustrated London News''. Google Books
*An account of how a reluctant elephant is made to swim across a river: [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fJMtAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA452 page 452] ''Camp and Cantonment: A Journal of Life in India in 1857-1859 to which is added A Short Account of the Pursuit of the Rebels in Central India by Majot Paget, RHA'' by Mrs Leopold Paget 1865 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Vvlt8tdRrf0C&pg=PA9 An elephant tale, 1858] ''Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Frank Richard Stockton'', page 9, first published 1872 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=rncDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA191 "Notes on elephant carriage and steel mountain batteries employed in Abyssinia"], page 191 an Appendix to "The Abyssinian Expedition" pages 167-202 ''Minutes of proceedings of the Royal artillery institution, Volume 6'' 1870 Google Books
*"Notes on Elephants and their Transport by Railway" by Capt H Wilberforce Clarke RE from ''Professional Papers on Indian Engineering Second Series Volume 8'' 1879 [http://www.archive.org/stream/professionalpap02brangoog#page/n321/mode/1up "Notes on Elephants"], page 243 [http://www.archive.org/stream/professionalpap02brangoog#page/n369/mode/1up "Report on the Transportation of Elephants by Railway"], page 289
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924000918486#page/n37/mode/2up "The Elephant as used in modern Armies"], page xxvi (Introduction) ''A manual of the diseases of the elephant and of his management and uses'' by John Henry Steel 1885 Archive.org
*This [httphttps://booksarchive.google.comorg/details/ChotaNagpur/page/n327/mode/books1up?id=W0x74TZB3eoC&lpg=PA200&dqq=elephant%20battery&pg=PA200 linkpage] advises an elephant battery at Jhansi was abolished c 1903, and the elephants sold. ''Chota Nagpur, a little-known province of the empire'', page 200 251 by Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt, 2nd edition 1910, first published 1903, Google Books.Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924000361455#page/n199/mode/2up "Chapter XII Elephants"] page 157 ''Army Veterinary Service in War'' by Major-General Sir John Moore AVS 1921 Archive.org
*An elephant story ''Toomai of the Elephants'' from ''The Jungle Book '' may be read online from the page [[Rudyard Kipling#Historical books online|Rudyard Kipling]]. The story is set at the conclusion of the annual hunt for wild elephants, for the Government of India.
==External links==
* Victorian Wars Forum thread<ref>Frogsmile. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131114125457/http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=6181#p24598 Identify details: photos of artillery elephants, India] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' thread] 29 October 2011, now archived. </ref> by Frogsmile which dates and identifies two photographs (refer [[Artillery elephants#Photographs and drawings|above]]) and provides much additional information about elephant batteries.*[http://gallimafry.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/second-anglo-burmese-war-elephant.html "Britain’s Fighting Elephants"] by H J Chuter ''Everybody’s Magazine'' August 1900 together with additional images. gallimafry.blogspot.com.
*[http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_majservants_heavies.htm "Heavy Batteries in India"] by Lt-Col Roger Ayers www.kipling.org.uk
*[http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=267290 Thread] about guns carried on elephants' backs. theminiaturespage.com
*[http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2021%20No%206/otherstories.html#story1 Bringing up elephants: 1812 book in the Saraswati Mahal Library] by Pradeep Chakravarthy ''Madras Musings'' Vol. XXI No. 6, July 1-15, 2011
*[http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2022%20No%204/elephants-over-the-centuries.html Elephants over the centuries] by A. Raman ''Madras Musings'' Vol. XXII No. 4, June 1-15, 2012
*Catalogue entry Liddell Hart Military Archives King’s College London [https://kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma/collection/b/bl65-001?searchterms=Block%2C+Col+Arthur+Hugh+1859-1931 Block, Col Arthur Hugh (1859-1931)] Four copy photographs of 9 Western Div (Heavy Bde) and 72 Company (Heavy Bde), Royal Garrison Artillery, in India, showing elephant battery manoeuvres and parade, 1898-1900. Reference code GB0099 KCLMA Block. kingscollections.org. Note the photographs are not available online.
*Newspaper article [http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/74479020 "Elephant Artillery. The Most Curious Corps In The British Army"].''The Colac Herald Friday 25 June 1915'' trove.nla.gov.au
*[http://www.cbi-theater.com/elephants/elephants.html "Elephants at war"], by Philip Wynter ''Life'' April 10, 1944. In Burma, World War 2 from [http://www.cbi-theater.com/menu/cbi_home.html "China - Burma - India: Remembering the Forgotten Theater of World War II"]
*[https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/mgzs/77/1/article-p37.xml "War Elephants and Early Tanks: A Transepochal Comparison of Ancient and Modern Warfare"] by Alaric Searle. ''Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift'' Volume 77: Issue 1 2018. degruyter.com
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