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This is a 1952 Force terrestres d Extême-Orient city plan or map of Hanoi, Vietnam. Published near the end of the First Indochina War (1946 - 1954), the map details a city that had been at war since 1940. Streets bear French names and are labeled in French, although a handful bear Vietnamese names and are labeled as such. Intriguingly, the lakes all have Vietnamese names. The train station is marked by diagonal hatching, along with the library, military hospital, the Institut Pasteur, and several other unlabeled buildings. The citadel, in the northern part of the city and the heart of the French colonial administration, appears in the upper part of the map and is highlighted in yellow manuscript. Lines consisting of dots and dashes traces the city s electrical tramway system.
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Elephants were the tanks of the ancient battlefield.
An elephant charging into a group of soldiers or horses could decimate a formation. That’s assuming the sheer psychological impact of watching a giant war beast with pointy tusks charging and shrieking like murder incarnate didn’t first cause the opposing force to flee in terror.
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They could smash fortifications, impale people on their tusks, and stomp people to death under their huge feet and enormous weight. They towered over the battlefield.
In addition to their brute strength and the inherent psychological impact on the enemy, elephants were incredibly useful for logistics. They’re also highly intelligent.
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