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Ever since machine guns were invented, the Brits went for them in a big way. Their colonial armies were small, and were usually arrayed against huge native armies, whose favorite tactics included overunning the numerically inferior British. Machine guns solved this problem. It reigned supreme against spears and muskets, the Africans main weapons.

This section covers the hand cranked 19th Century machine guns like:

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And coming soon, the 20th Century machine guns:

  • The Vickers Gun

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