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Autochrome of French cuirassiers, 1913 (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Its odd to think this is how it was prior to machine guns and tanks. Color really does make it feel like a reenactment.

[–] grue 13 points 5 months ago (4 children)

this is how it was prior to machine guns and tanks

Unless OP typo'd the year in the title and this wasn't actually from 1913, Gatling guns had existed for almost half a century and the British Mark I tank was only 3 years away.

[–] meeeeetch 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, machine guns existed, but Europeans had pretty much only pointed them at Africans until one year after this picture was taken.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

They were used in the Franco-Prussian war a bit.

[–] PugJesus 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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[–] Noodle07 4 points 5 months ago

Should be 1813, it's Napoléon's army

[–] PugJesus 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, Europe had spent most of the time the Gatling and Maxim had existed for fighting under the rules of engagement, as the great British Captain Blackadder once noted, that the "prerequisite of a... campaign was that the enemy should under no circumstances carry guns."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"wibble"

[–] PugJesus 1 points 5 months ago

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