This is a year before the start of WW1, so that's likely precisely what happened. The start of the great war completely changed tactics and overall military doctrine. At the beginning, officers would often command cavalry charges against machine gun fire, with expected results
this is how it was prior to machine guns and tanks
Unless OP typo'd the year in the title and this wasn't actually from 1913, Gatling guns had existed for almost half a century and the British Mark I tank was only 3 years away.
To be fair, Europe had spent most of the time the Gatling and Maxim had existed for fighting under the rules of engagement, as the great British Captain Blackadder once noted, that the "prerequisite of a... campaign was that the enemy should under no circumstances carry guns."
That's really high quality for literal potato photography.
(Context: The autochrome used starch particles from potatoes - some dyed red, others green, others blue - over the photosensitive layer on a glass photography plate as a color mask that was used both for filtering incoming light as the photo was taken, and for producing appropriate colors when viewing. The images needed to be shown backlit at high intensity, and neither color reproduction nor sharpness was very good. Starch was cheaper than three times as much photosensitive material, though.)
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They look like historical reenactors
Seems like today's reenactors are doing a good job then :D
If they're not, they were in for a nasty surprise the first time they charged into a position with machine guns.
This is a year before the start of WW1, so that's likely precisely what happened. The start of the great war completely changed tactics and overall military doctrine. At the beginning, officers would often command cavalry charges against machine gun fire, with expected results
some of them may have in WW1
Yeah, that was my point.
Then it was a good point
Its odd to think this is how it was prior to machine guns and tanks. Color really does make it feel like a reenactment.
Unless OP typo'd the year in the title and this wasn't actually from 1913, Gatling guns had existed for almost half a century and the British Mark I tank was only 3 years away.
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]
Should be 1813, it's Napoléon's army
To be fair, Europe had spent most of the time the Gatling and Maxim had existed for fighting under the rules of engagement, as the great British Captain Blackadder once noted, that the "prerequisite of a... campaign was that the enemy should under no circumstances carry guns."
"wibble"
"Right, Baldrick. This is an old trick I picked up in the Sudan..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatling_gun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_gun
If men's formal wear looked like this I'd get dressed up more often
Be the trendsetter you want to see in the world o7
Yeah but where am I gonna find a chest plate in my size?
That's really high quality for literal potato photography.
(Context: The autochrome used starch particles from potatoes - some dyed red, others green, others blue - over the photosensitive layer on a glass photography plate as a color mask that was used both for filtering incoming light as the photo was taken, and for producing appropriate colors when viewing. The images needed to be shown backlit at high intensity, and neither color reproduction nor sharpness was very good. Starch was cheaper than three times as much photosensitive material, though.)
I don’t believe it. Those are totally modern trees.
What building is in the back right?