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Photographs and drawings
*[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 [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap2.htm British Voices from South Asia] Louisiana State University
*[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. The same [http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/images/480/105000-105999/105876.jpg photograph] is also available at the National Army Museum with these [http://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://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 down for 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
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