Europeans sure were brave, so long as the enemy didn't have guns.
>>18764964This is a clip from a movie where the natives do, in fact, have rifles and use them against the British.It's based on an actual historical battle where the natives did, in fact, have rifles and used them against the British.
>>18764964Europeans sure were smart, to vastly improve guns to conquer the world and bring even the mightiest power of the world then to heel, forcing the dragon throne itself to such sign humiliating treaties that they would consider themselves as colonised as the Indians who were completely subjugated and reduced to provinces of the British Empire.
>>18764964The Zulus at Rorke's Drift were widely armed with the same rifles the defending British were armed with, stolen from their sudden and brutal ambush at Isandlwan. Many British men who died at the hands of the Zulu at Rokes Drift were shot dead from long distances, and very few were killed melee. The troops at Rorkes Drift actually dominated in melee, despite their enemies shields and entire upbringing due to the superior bayonet training.
>>18764964The idea that war is about bravery or fighting prowess is a form of capeshit for the proles to consume, anyway.
>>18764964They whooped blacks when they had guns as wellAccording to cia documents white mercs in africa were perceived as viltrumites lmao brvtal
>>18764977>>18765141Cope. How is South Africa now? How many whites in South Africa have power?
>>18765185What does that have to do with what you responded to, rage-baiting retard?
>>18764964>bolt-actions
>>18765749https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%E2%80%93Enfieldretard
>niggers are so retarded they hadn't invented guns by the 1870s
>>18765749Where are you seeing a bolt action in that clip?
>>18765780How the fuck do you invent something that already exists? Western Europeans didn't invent guns either, the Ottomans did (Changs will cope and claim they invented firearms but they just invented overglorified fireworks)
>>18765799And Western Europeans got guns from the Ottomans how?
>>18764964Did you not watch the movie? The Zulu did have guns (and that is historically accurate to the battle)
>>18765799>we invented guns sar
>>18765805Same way modern African armies procure guns from Russians, Israelis, the French etc
>>18765809I believe it was smoothbore muskets though mostly, which had poor range compared to the Martini-Henry. The Zulus did capture a load of those at Isandlwana but I'm not sure how many were used at Rorke's Drift the day after.
>>18765812And the Zulus were incapable of doing this from the Ottomans?
>>18765820Right, because there were so many direct trade routes between Sub Saharan Africa and the Ottoman Empire as you know
>>18765822By the 1870s?
>>18765831Part of the issue in the 1870s would've been competing European powers actively preventing such trade routes, as the Ottoman Empire still controlled parts of North Africa
>>18765822The Brussels Conference Act of 1890 specifically had to ban trade of breechloading firearms to sub-saharan Africa, and the Ottoman Empire was a party to it.A lot of this type of trade was conducted through the Sultanate of Zanzibar. Lookup Tippu Tip and the Congo-Arab wars. Probably didn't go quite as far south as Zululand but definitely to Mozambique.
>>18765832>The Euros is why we don't have guns in the 1870s o algo bix nood.
>>18765799>Western Europeans didn't invent guns either, the Ottomans didnew form of kanging unlocked
>>18765836>heehehe, yeah my irrelevant European backwater didn't invent shit but if I invent racial categories and broaden them just enough I can still get a participation trophy!
I'm trying to understand why this guy thinks the Ottomans invented guns but I literally cannot find a single stage in the evolution of cannons that they could claim responsibility for
>>18765838>the nons are now trying to claim that Britain didn't event anything
>>18765838I am not European or Chinese and am genuinely interested in how you got this idea Ottomans invented guns.Is it because of the Siege of Constantinople? But that doesn't make sense because at the first attempt at the siege, it was literally the Byzantine artillery that forced the Ottomans to withdraw
>>18765839https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arquebus
>>18765839Or why the Zulus were unable to come up with the idea independently, by 1879.
>>18765843You are linking a page that claims the evidence for European, not Ottoman, invention of the arquebus is "overwhelming"
>>18765844The same reason your country didn't independently come up with the idea either
>>18765842And cannons were common across European armies and had been for decades.
>>18765847he apparently got the idea from a wikipedia page that clearly states the Ottomans didn't invent it. The Africans are not in top form today sadly.
>>18765846But by 1879 they had stumbled across the idea and were designing and making their own.
>>18764964Chinkies and Turks had guns.
>what is line warfareshitty bait
>>18766958Most of the old world desu
>>18764964Remember when africans raped portugal Everytime they tried to invade for 500 years
