Despite being braver, better drilled and better motivated (take the legendary story where Cetsewayo marched a unit of troops off a cliff, then invited the British commander to match that).
In my book, that basically qualifies them as 'stupider'. Why waste men simply to show off their willingness to die? Then you have fewer people to actually fight with. I'll bet the British commander did no such thing.
From: Helen Krummenacker avona@jps.net
In my book, that basically qualifies them as 'stupider'. Why waste men simply to show off their willingness to die? Then you have fewer people to actually fight with. I'll bet the British commander did no such thing.
Well, he didn't, of course, because he couldn't. And he lost serious face as a result. So there was nothing stupid about Cetsewayo's little demo - for a handful of men he could amply afford, he soundly humiliated an arrogant colonial power.
Neil
Neil said:
Well, he didn't, of course, because he couldn't. And he lost serious face as a result. So there was nothing stupid about Cetsewayo's little demo - for a handful of men he could amply afford, he soundly humiliated an arrogant colonial power.
I bet that if Avon and Vila heard this, and they had the (record? CD? MP3000 file?) they'd quote The Threepenny Opera (well, Avon would quote it in German, which I don't speak): You're talking to the great, But you are dead. What's the percentage, says Mack the Knife? The bulging pocket makes the easy life.
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