Empire building

Rating: Null/10 (21 September 1999)

The participants in this battle were awarded more VCs than in any other single battle fought by British troops. The small contingent proved that once again modern weapons could overcome a numerical disadvantage. The famous ditty in Rhodesia was, "We care not how many Zulus they have got; We have the Gatling gun and they have not." The Gatling was so successfully used on hordes of spear carrying African natives that it was later used in Europe during World War One. Not as one-sidedly since the Germans had weapons which could, and did, reply in kind. Superior weaponry created empires and brutally held them together until their demise when it was finally learned that they were expensive to maintain in lives and treasure.