@PugJesusM to HistoryPornEnglish • 10 days agoAutochrome of French cuirassiers, 1913imagemessage-square23arrow-up1162arrow-down12
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minus-square@meeeeetchlinkEnglish7•10 days agoYeah, machine guns existed, but Europeans had pretty much only pointed them at Africans until one year after this picture was taken.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•10 days agoThey were used in the Franco-Prussian war a bit.
minus-square@PugJesusOPMlinkEnglish2•edit-210 days ago♪ "Whatever happens, we have got♪ ♪ The Maxim gun, and they have not!" ♪ [WW1 starts] [screaming internally and externally]
Yeah, machine guns existed, but Europeans had pretty much only pointed them at Africans until one year after this picture was taken.
They were used in the Franco-Prussian war a bit.
♪ "Whatever happens, we have got♪
♪ The Maxim gun, and they have not!" ♪
[WW1 starts]
[screaming internally and externally]