There were many wars and battles in the course of European colonization where advanced technology won the day.

In the First Matabele war (1893-94) in Rhodesia, for example, during the battle of the Shangani, 700 British soldiers equipped with 4 of the new Maxim machine guns fought off 3,000 warriors.

The power of the technology was eulogized by Hilaire Belloc in his poem The Modern Traveller

"Whatever happens, we have got

The Maxim gun, and they have not."

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