Yeah sure. They did things to stop the local beasty from doing damage.jcmedhurst wrote:And, having visited India a couple of years ago, I can confirm that Indian fortresses (in Rajasthan at least), very often have specific defences to stop Elephants pushing down gates (spiky stuff riveted firmly to the outside of the gate and narrow corners to make it hard to maneuver one's elephant). This implies that the pushy-downy door tactic with elephants was used sufficiently frequently and was sufficiently effective with that some form of special defence was required.
Just my 2-pennyworth
John
A BG of any other sort of mounted (even light horse) substantially outnumbers a BG of elephants, so you have to give more than 'they did x to counter elephants'. I'm pretty sure the Rajasthan also put stakes down to try to stop men.
Ian
