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Show DOGS UTILIZED IN WARFARE I l',Mv Once Actual Participants In Hostilities, Hostili-ties, as Well as Made of Good Use In Other Ways. "Dogs of war" is a phrase, which once meant a thing as real as the war horse. Dogs have played their part in battles and campaigns, and In the old wars between England and Scotland dogs were used by both combatants tor pursuing and killing fugitives after a defeat It Is1 related that Wajlnce and Bruce each had clone escapes from capture by English bloodhounds. Bruce is said to have thrown the Ijng-' llsh dog off the scent by the now well-known well-known expedient of wading 'up J a( stream far enough to baffle hlstiu'r,' Buers, and Wallaceevaded the hounds by having recourse. ,tq a trlck'gpre, or less common In tbos'e bloody Xlm&ifr of killing1 a follower and Icavltfgftue body In the dogs'"path for them1' to, come upon. The dogs finding a body believed that their task was done apd discontinued the hunt In tho history of tha wars of Jho mlddlo ages ono finds reference to tho use of big dogs against cavalry for tho purpose of throwlng'the horses Into confusion and not alono for causing panto but' casualties, for these flerco canine partisans wero clothed In coatB of malt studded with spikes and having hav-ing scythes fitted to their harness. Instances ore recorded where war dogs with flro brands fastened to their coats of mall havo been set on 'an enemy's camp with destructive results. re-sults. IJenry VIII must havo found dogs useful in military ways, because In English history it Is written that ho offered the use of 40,000 auxiliaries and 4,000 war dogs to King Charles V of Spain to aid that monarch. In his war with Francis L m - In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when the earl of Essex' entered: Ireland Ire-land for the purpose of suppressing t4 surreoUoa there hie army 3owa sel companled by 100 bloodhoua.' cl i. |
