From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Aug 01 1997 - 07:43:26 MDT
At 11:25 PM 7/31/97 -0400, EvMick wrote:
>I seem to recall that a certain Zulu Cheiftain had
>his warriors repeatedly charge a squad of Boers(or was it British?) armed
>with a Maxim Machine gun. It seems that the machine gun had more bullets
>than the Chief had warriors and that tribe went extinct. Most unfair...if
>he'd had only a few more young black males....and calling them stupid ?
I seem to recall that certain British generals had their warriors - the
supposed flower of the Empire - repeatedly charge dug-in German troops
armed with machine guns. Luckily the Empire had more fine young men to
kill than the Zulu Chief. Didn't stop it `going extinct', of course,
eventually.
Damien Broderick
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