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Swiss sapper in service to Napoleonic France
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An axe seems like a shitty tool for earthworks. Though a useful one for stakes and abatis...
Sappers of the Napoleonic army were often of the more destructive side of military engineering - getting gates, fences, and blockages open for the rest of the troops was a major function of their's!
A sapper having bashed loose a farmhouse (used by British troops as a makeshift fortification) gate at Waterloo: