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Autochrome of French cuirassiers, 1913
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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.