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Created page with '==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; …'
==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
*[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 enlarged version) Ebay.com. Originally from ''The Illustrated London News'', Saturday, May 8, 1858
*[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
*[http://www.cqout.com/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. [http://www.cqout.com/item.asp?id=10168438 CQout.com] Originally from ''The Graphic'' Saturday, October 24, 1885
*[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://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://books.google.com/books?id=6QXYfAi0FUsC&pg=PA18 Photograph of an elephant battery 1897], with guns loaded on the elephant backs. ''The British Army on 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/default.asp?resource=6145 Photograph of "Elephant Battery on Parade, Jhansi, India c 1899"] Staffordshire Past-Track
*[http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/HU052533.html Photograph of "Elephant Battery Gwalior c 1935"] Heavy artillery is transported to a hill station by a team of Indian elephants. Corbis Images
==Historical books online==
*This [http://books.google.com/books?id=V50bAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA451 extract] includes wording from a 1784 book<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=YncIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA239 ''The History of Ayder Ali Khan, Nabob-Bahader: or, New Memoirs Concerning the East Indies. Volume 1''], page 239 by M. M. D. L. T. 1784 Google Books</ref> and refers to the skill of the elephants in the Army of Hyder Ali. "It can hardly be imagined how useful these elephants are, nor with what skill and intelligence they do their work". "Baggage of the Indian Army" ''Calcutta Review, Volume 11 January-June 1849'', page 445
*This [http://books.google.com/books?id=M2ooAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA222 extract] is about the pushing power of an elephant ''The Calcutta Review, Volume 8, July-December 1847'' page 222
*[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
*[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
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/professionalpap02brangoog#page/n321/mode/1up "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/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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=W0x74TZB3eoC&lpg=PA200&dq=elephant%20battery&pg=PA200 link] 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 by Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt, first published 1903, Google Books.
== References ==
<references />
[[Category:British Army]]
[[Category:Royal Artillery| ]]
[[Category:Military]]
*[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
*[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 enlarged version) Ebay.com. Originally from ''The Illustrated London News'', Saturday, May 8, 1858
*[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
*[http://www.cqout.com/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. [http://www.cqout.com/item.asp?id=10168438 CQout.com] Originally from ''The Graphic'' Saturday, October 24, 1885
*[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://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://books.google.com/books?id=6QXYfAi0FUsC&pg=PA18 Photograph of an elephant battery 1897], with guns loaded on the elephant backs. ''The British Army on 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/default.asp?resource=6145 Photograph of "Elephant Battery on Parade, Jhansi, India c 1899"] Staffordshire Past-Track
*[http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/HU052533.html Photograph of "Elephant Battery Gwalior c 1935"] Heavy artillery is transported to a hill station by a team of Indian elephants. Corbis Images
==Historical books online==
*This [http://books.google.com/books?id=V50bAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA451 extract] includes wording from a 1784 book<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=YncIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA239 ''The History of Ayder Ali Khan, Nabob-Bahader: or, New Memoirs Concerning the East Indies. Volume 1''], page 239 by M. M. D. L. T. 1784 Google Books</ref> and refers to the skill of the elephants in the Army of Hyder Ali. "It can hardly be imagined how useful these elephants are, nor with what skill and intelligence they do their work". "Baggage of the Indian Army" ''Calcutta Review, Volume 11 January-June 1849'', page 445
*This [http://books.google.com/books?id=M2ooAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA222 extract] is about the pushing power of an elephant ''The Calcutta Review, Volume 8, July-December 1847'' page 222
*[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
*[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
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/professionalpap02brangoog#page/n321/mode/1up "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/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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=W0x74TZB3eoC&lpg=PA200&dq=elephant%20battery&pg=PA200 link] 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 by Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt, first published 1903, Google Books.
== References ==
<references />
[[Category:British Army]]
[[Category:Royal Artillery| ]]
[[Category:Military]]
