"But the Roman emperor was determined to try whether the Bengal tiger could fight the African lion, and martial records that the tigers and lions fought, and that the tigers always beat the lions."
-The Medical Times and Gazzette (page 626)
"A British officer, who resided many years at Sierra Leone, was repeatedly a spectator between the lion and tiger, in which the latter was universally victorious."
-Tales of Travellers: or, a view of the world (page 453)
Seen that one on wiki. Not all that much to brag about, a tiger will out box a lion in the first instance, but the source mentions nothing about the lions being killed. All prolonged fights show dead tigers.
"The lion is a less active animal than the tiger, and apparently not so powerful; in every case of a fight between the two occuring in a manegerie the tiger has invariably killed his opponent."
-Big Game Shooting, volume 2 (page 195)
"Lions and tigers have often been put together to fight, but the lion has invariably declined the combat. They have accidentally got into each other's cages, and the tiger has killed the lion."
"Finally, where encounters in captivity have taken place between the two species, the tiger has always been victorious."
-Sport and wildlife in the Deccan (page 92)
These three are citing the same incident, if you actually read the book, al say edmonds menagerie via charles jamrach...
That account is on wiki too, it says the tiger killed 31 lions, heres the original records:
Charles Jamrach moved to London and took over that branch of the business after his father's death in circa 1840
A fine, full-grown Bengal tiger was deposited,
in his rough wooden cage, on this very spot at the gates, having just been delivered from a ship in the docks. The lair at the back was being prepared for his reception, when, the attention of Mr. Jamrach and his merry men being otherwise engaged, Tigris regalis set his hindquarters against the back of his temporary receptacle, and, using all his strength, managed to burst out the boards12. Then he quietly trotted out, and down the main street. The sudden appearance of a full- sized tiger at midday on the pavement of
Ratcliff- There are many things
bought at the sale of the effects of the late king of Oude, an enthusiastic old gentleman whose allowance from the British Government was a lac of rupees a month, and who managed to spend it all, and more than all, on curiosities and works of art, so that his funeral was followed by a sale on behalf of his creditors11
http://www.georgewombwell.com/articl...andArticle.pdf
This tiger named by the King was called Jungla
http://newspapers.library.wales/view...55/3397558/10/
-A Handy Book Of Curious Information (page 497)
"Fights between lions and tiger have been staged. The tiger always wins."
-Impulse Archeology (page 257)
This one was talking about a bar fight in mexico.
"Occasional fights were also staged between lions and tigers (the tiger always won)"
-Count Belisarius (page 51)
Ha ha ha ha, this is a fictional book, it states right here in the middle in blue...Fiction:
Count Belisarius
"George Stubbs, the most famous and original painter of his time who was just reaching his peak in 1759, liked to display combats of lion versus tiger, though he did not commit the engregious mistake made in James Ward's animal pictures where the lion symbolises Britain and the tiger India; in reality, as we know very clearly from the obscene animal fights staged by the Ancient Romans in the arena, the tiger would win such a fight every time."
-1759: The Year Britain became Master of the World (page 163)
"The fight of a lion and a tiger is a very one sided affair. In the days of the Roman games they had to choose a very small tiger and a particularly powerful lion."
-An outspoken soldier; His views and memoirs (page 90)
Yet this joke hasnt a single tangible evidence that show they won more, like these...
Translated, a important mosaic shows a lion attacking a tiger:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&....0.yEYMBy-2WiA
http://www.romanoimpero.com/2010/01/pompei.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=vt...0tiger&f=false
https://issuu.com/yournetsolution/do...7614e560f23d67
a duplicate was found, that duplicate was sent to the museum in naples:
https://books.google.com/books?id=eLMgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA295&d q=house+of+the+faun+%22lion+stan ding+over+a+prostrate+tiger.%22& hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4sbnK6YTL AhUI3mMKHepaDJwQ6AEIJDAB#v=onepa ge&q=house%20of%20the%20faun%20% 22lion%20standing%20over%20a%20p rostrate%20tiger.%22&f=false
It states in this book, that the mosaico of the lion attacking the tiger, was sent to the naples museum:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=bks&q=caecilius +secundus&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUK Ewiwm4mP6oTLAhUM4mMKHUAJCcwQBQgb KAA#hl=en&tbm=bks&q=%22musaico+d i+un+leone+che+aitale+una+tigre+(a+Napoli).%22
Only fragments were found of the mosaic in the room next to the exedra (plate 79:15), a scene with a lion bringing down a tiger
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=bks&q=%22a+scen e+with+a+lion+bringing+down+a+ti ger%22&oq=%22a+scene+with+a+lion +bringing+down+a+tiger%22&gs_l=s erp.3...5176.6415.0.6579.2.2.0.0 .0.0.131.256.0j2.2.0....0...1c.1 .64.serp..0.0.0.93AGHMNmMEc
Hence this artifact is a replica restored of the house of faun:
"This Exhibition was organized by the Napoleonic authorities in the Capitol in Rome."
http://www.galerieheim.ch/oeuvre-det...uvre=116&lng=2
Its best to get things from the direct source or people who have credibility to answer such questions in their respective domains:
Historian Ken spiro
HORROR SHOW
“Next, the arena was lowered to feature combat between them as lions tore apart tigers, an went up against bears, croc’s leopards against wolves. It goes without saying that the Romans had never heard of animal rights.”
~M.A In History from The Vermont College of Norwich University
http://www.ais
Many artifacts in the roman nation show that the lion is the usual winner:
Copper engraving by the well listed Italian artist Pietro Aquila (1650-1692 Rome). Pietro Aquila was an Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period. He was born in Palermo. He mentored his nephew, the printmaker Francesco Faraone Aquila.
Pietro Aquila - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Carl Borromäus Andreas Ruthart)
Died in Rome L’Aqulia Born in the Holy Roman Empire. of the German Nation, Carl Borromäus Andreas Ruthart travelled to Italy very early on. His trace can be found in Rome and Venice between 1652 and 1659. After finishing his apprenticeship, he came to work in Antwerp in order to perfect his knowledge.
http://www.dejonckheere-gallery.com/...tml?m=1&id=152
A TIGER roaming for his prey,
Sprang on a traveller in the way;
A lion came to claim the prize
And soon the greedy tiger dies.
The man then knelt, his life to crave;
His life the lion hero gave,
And him bespoke,—" You saw the fight
And must confess my power and might,
Within these woods I reign alone,
All other beasts my sway must own."
"True," said the man, "the strength 1 saw, All kinds of beasts full well might awe,
~Aesop (pronounced /?i¢?s?p/ EE-sop, Ancient Greek
"I have seen no fiercer beast than yon lion, even in the amphitheatre of Rome,"
http://books.google.com/books?id=DOw...ed=0CCMQ6AEwBA
A Tiger, roaming for his prey,
Sprung on a Traveller in the way;
The prostrate game a lion spies,
And on the greedy tyrant flies:
With mingled roar resounds the wood,
Their teeth, their claws, distil with blood;
Till, vanquished by the Lion's strength,
The striped foe extends his length.
The Man besought the shaggy lord,
And on his knees for life implor'd:
His life the generous hero gave.
Together walking to his cave,
The Lion thus bespoke his guest:
'What hardy beast shall dare contest My matchless strength? you saw the fight, And must attest my pow'r and right. Fore'd to forego their native home, My starving slaves at distance roam.
Even in modern rome, lions were still killing tigers:
LION AND TIGER FIGHT. - Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) - 31 Oct 1930=
Cool, so you got 3 times tigers have killed lions, on the first page the link shows over 60 times lions have killed tigers.
60 > 3
