There’s a city in France (Chambery) in honour of the Indian Maratha with four elephants surrounding a fountain, they only have the front sculpted so they’re called “les quatre sans cul”: the four without ass because the sculptor apparently didn’t know their anatomy
Damn, people really demand fully modeled elephant sculptures?
Of course, it’s France after all 😝
War elephants in England…?
“So?”
“So, war elephants are tropical. This is temperate zone.”
Perhaps they migrated
With coconuts‽‽
The elephant could be carried. A C-123K could drop the elephant in a large crate with a parachute attached
Sea turtles, mate
mammoths probably
Wikipedia calls it doubtful, though there are sources which say it happened. I’m curious about Denmark though!
Looks like Denmark is grey.
Northern Denmark, yes, but some of the coloured bit is Southern Denmark.
Elephants in northern Denmark? Ridiculous!
Southern Denmark though? Elephant central.
That’s Roman Britain so it is probably glazing the territories held by the Roman Empire. This is likely a map of areas that were ruled by an entity that used war elephants.
No, Claudius actually boated them over to scare the locals into shape. Or reputedly so.
“Shit, this isn’t the tube stop I was hoping for”
Roman Emperor Claudius, so the story goes. If it did happen, it might have been for show rather than because it was really practical for warfare.
maybe war mastadon in prehistoric times.
Where war elephants were used so far
Grey is “yet to be used upon” let’s be real
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Now do middleearth
I wish Lincoln accepted that set to fight in the Civil War.
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Are you saying we need to use war elephants to invade New Zealand?
#MapsWithoutAmericas
US-ian here, yes please
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poor phanties 😭
in age of empires, i would mass build them all the time. after using the “trade market trick”
How did they get to the islands
Elephants love to swim!
No. Way!
On ships.
But elephant big. Trireme small.
XIII? Or possible earlier?
EDIT: I’m reading this article. Look what you made me do! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_maritime_history
I am curious, is the Yellow in South Arabia in reference to Year of the Elephant or is that seen as not credible and there was a whole different Elephant event in that region I never knew about?
