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Autochrome of French cuirassiers, 1913
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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."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatling_gun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_gun