When Was The FIRST Time TANKS Were Used in Battle? (Thanks Britain)

Too little is said about the History of Tanks, how they came to be, and how they were first used in battle during The Great War.
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[datboizaz]

Imagine seeing the first tank and being like WTF IS THAT HOLD SHIT

[Chaos_Coming]

Man, i cant imagine how terrified they were by seeing a 300 pounds of metal with robot tech...💀

[Lewis]

In my school in Britain we were taught that the first use of tanks was the Battle of Cambrai, however I think that it might be referencing the first time of tanks used in mass, either way I’m not too sure.

[nematolvajkergetok]

The Austrian proto-tank shown here was in fact the first armored combat vehicle ever. However, the inventor made a grave mistake at the first demonstration, during a practice maneuver: he scared Archduke Franz Ferdinand's horse with it. The Archduke got irate, and ordered "that stupid contraption" to be removed from the maneuver field, and forbade the army to even think of ever having one.

[memesandgames]

Guys look
A big box is moving towards us
Wait...

[G]

The British Mark I was the first ever tank to see combat.
Mark I tanks went into action for the first time on 15 September 1916 on the Somme.

[georgekaragiannakis]

Thanks again for an interesting short fact. There’s been an ongoing debate on whether the British were premature in revealing their innovation with only 49 tanks available and no thought of exploiting any breakthrough- if they gene conceived that tanks could accomplish that. Whereas at Cambrai in 1917 they used 476 tanks with devastating result but again couldn’t exploit their success. Do you think they should have waited at the Somme until they had a larger number of tanks?

[LJCotton]

Well yes most would say that the first traditional tank was used during WW1 but tanks have been around for thousands of years. For example, the Romans use a "tank" strategy by forming a sheild wall. Leonardo DaVinci had a conscept of the DaVinci tank that would spin and fire the many cannons on it.

[Blackwater_House]

Why are Tanks called Tanks?

The most popular story is that when they were shipped to France in WWI, the shipping manifest for Security Reasons described them as “Rainwater Tanks”.

But honestly who ever heard of a 30 Ton “Rainwater Tank”?

Even Railway Workers and Dock Workers aren’t that stupid.


T.A.N.K. is a Military Acronym meaning “Truck, Armoured, New Kind”, which was of course a much more accurate description and helps explain the 30 Ton weight.

[jericho_]

We've come so far in 100 years it's insane

[JohnDoe-wtek]

September 15, 1916. Mk I British tanks were used to assist the infantry in breaking German defensive lines. Flers-Courcelette, France.

[Kaiju_slayer]

It was actually the little willie that was used in the battle of the Somme first, the mark 1-5 came later

[Simply-a-guy]

"hans why are the enemy bunker moving?"
-random german soldier in flers-courcelette

[tobejonsson]

CANT QUITE MAKE OUT THE MUSIC SOUNDS KINDA LIKE JOY DIVISION

[tylergehring]

Winston Churchill was a navy commander not a army commander.

[Thefeildworker]

And his hame was "Little Willie"💀

[hush]

And you know soldiers must have been horrified to see these moving behemoths firing at them

[BuyIt]

Here’s a fun fact Tanks were Very very old Like not ww1 but some mediaeval times and they just use a bunch of design that don’t look like a tank

[TheAlfredShow-rqbk]

Thank Lincoln in the United Kingdom. Created the first tank ❤