Armored Elephants also got better results than India’s Dassault Rafale.
Good job, only true Westerners can keep things like that for generations to enjoy. Some Punjabi official would have taken and destroyed it decades ago.
“Looted” is such a loaded word…
Need something for the missus to wear
Now we know where they got the idea for the first tank.
The intentions were clear: Preserve the Armour so that Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum (which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history), won’t do a video on it.
>Looted
I would be very interested in the source of this word, as I understood a Maharajah gave it as a gift.
I mean … Do we really need to explain ourselves? Have you not seen all the clues?
Two-man crew. I’m disappointed there’s no tail gunner.
Finders keepers, shut up.
That looks like Susan dressed up for a party.
We’re still looking at it!
Ill defend barry here, its cool as fuck and they wanted it. Theirs now.
We looted it because it’s fucking sick, you’d do the same.
If not for Europe, a lot of things we now treasure as prizeless pieces of culture would’ve been destroyed, reforged or else. But Europe’s curiosity and greed saved a lot of these things.
You create the largest empire the world has ever seen and then you can keep whatever you like.
It’s not even in London, it’s in Leeds. That’s like putting the Mona Lisa in a cupboard…. in the lavatory…. a classic French WC type.
The explanation is that the Royal Armouries is an elite museum and I will hear no criticism of it.
Only surviving one you say? I wonder why
It’s epic . Alexander the great was probably the last general to fight successfully with Elephants. Hannibal did try against the Romans. Either way it’s epic .
And in 2025 India is still yet to build a museum.
tbh, good. In India it would be lost, stolen or covered in cow shit
Thank God the British “looted” this one and looked after it for generations while India (which didn’t exist in 1801 btw – it was a bunch of warring empires) destroyed all the others.
Barry 63 perfectly fits this armor.
Why do you think its the only surviving elephant armor? Like it or not, british “looting” has preserved history when the place of origin didnt.
Went this museum last week, legit one of thr best museums going and Leeds is pretty decent as well
It’s quite simple we take it so they don’t lose it
It’s not exactly hard to reproduce, it’s just a goddamned set of leather armor. Cry more, Indian Jones
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Wrong. That’s the royal armouries in Leeds.
If not for Barry there wouldn’t be any full elephant armor left in the world.
We just wanted to protect the elephants from Asian attackers
Just keeping things safe
It belongs in a museum
https://preview.redd.it/1ursdkr7i9ff1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61d2390e354aef4bafbde6f7d16825fb1b667987
Damn 💔
Armored Elephants also got better results than India’s Dassault Rafale.
Good job, only true Westerners can keep things like that for generations to enjoy. Some Punjabi official would have taken and destroyed it decades ago.
“Looted” is such a loaded word…
Need something for the missus to wear
Now we know where they got the idea for the first tank.
The intentions were clear: Preserve the Armour so that Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum (which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history), won’t do a video on it.
>Looted
I would be very interested in the source of this word, as I understood a Maharajah gave it as a gift.
I mean … Do we really need to explain ourselves? Have you not seen all the clues?
Two-man crew. I’m disappointed there’s no tail gunner.
Finders keepers, shut up.
That looks like Susan dressed up for a party.
We’re still looking at it!
Ill defend barry here, its cool as fuck and they wanted it. Theirs now.
We looted it because it’s fucking sick, you’d do the same.
If not for Europe, a lot of things we now treasure as prizeless pieces of culture would’ve been destroyed, reforged or else. But Europe’s curiosity and greed saved a lot of these things.
You create the largest empire the world has ever seen and then you can keep whatever you like.
It’s not even in London, it’s in Leeds. That’s like putting the Mona Lisa in a cupboard…. in the lavatory…. a classic French WC type.
The explanation is that the Royal Armouries is an elite museum and I will hear no criticism of it.
Only surviving one you say? I wonder why
It’s epic . Alexander the great was probably the last general to fight successfully with Elephants. Hannibal did try against the Romans. Either way it’s epic .
And in 2025 India is still yet to build a museum.
tbh, good. In India it would be lost, stolen or covered in cow shit
The British.
https://preview.redd.it/9gy86jy43aff1.jpeg?width=193&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b204de3c36d2b7521c7ab23f2f1f7b0e64f2445
It came in a rubber boat.
Thank God the British “looted” this one and looked after it for generations while India (which didn’t exist in 1801 btw – it was a bunch of warring empires) destroyed all the others.
Barry 63 perfectly fits this armor.
Why do you think its the only surviving elephant armor? Like it or not, british “looting” has preserved history when the place of origin didnt.
Went this museum last week, legit one of thr best museums going and Leeds is pretty decent as well
It’s quite simple we take it so they don’t lose it
It’s not exactly hard to reproduce, it’s just a goddamned set of leather armor. Cry more, Indian Jones
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