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War elephants depicted in Hannibal crossing the Rhône (1878), by Henri Motte Indian elephant sword on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, two feet (61 cm) long Rajput painting depicting a war elephant in an army. A war elephant is an elephant that is trained and guided by humans for combat purposes.
He says that Ramprasad was a brave and smart elephant of the Mewar army. [9] [10] He further says that when the Battle of Haldighati started, Ramprasad with his mahout and Chieftain (Pratap Singh Tanwar) started attacking the Mughal army. [11] Ramprasad is said to have killed 13 elephants of the Mughal army, along with their mahouts.
In India, the process of training an elephant has changed little since ancient times. They captured elephants in the wild because they are difficult to breed and maintain for years in captivity.
War elephants belonging to Chanda Sahib, assisted by a small number of troops from the French East India Company batter the gates of Arcot. Robert Clive sent a messenger to inform Maratha general Murari Rao of his situation to immediately march to Arcot to relieve the besieged garrison.
Indian forces had war elephants armored with chain mail and poison on their tusks which gave difficult time to Timurid forces as Timurids experienced this first time. [2] But within a passage of time Timur had understood that elephants were easily panicked.
The Indian war elephants were heavily armoured and had castle-like howdahs on their back carrying a trio of archers and javelin men. Porus' soldiers were dressed in flamboyantly hued outfits with steel helmets, bright scarves and baldrics , and wielded axes, lances and maces.
Execution by elephant, or Gunga Rao, was a method of capital punishment in South and Southeast Asia, particularly in India, where Asian elephants were used to crush, dismember, or torture captives during public executions. The animals were trained to kill victims immediately or to torture them slowly over a prolonged period.
Some scholars believe that by that time elephants had been tamed and domesticated, and used for peaceful and possibly for other purposes. Rigveda 8-33-8 mentions a Wild Elephant. [2] Megasthenes, the Greek ambassador to the court of Chandragupta Maurya reports use of war elephants during warfare.