This expedition, to Benin, involved 10 Royal Navy ships and 1,400 soldiers, armed with the recently invented Maxim machine gun.

这次前往贝宁的远征涉及 10 艘皇家海军舰艇和 1,400 名士兵，装备了最近发明的马克沁机枪。

Though  Lobengula's troops were highly trained warriors, the British Maxim machine gun had forever  changed the calculus of colonial warfare.

尽管洛本古拉的部队都是训练有素的战士，但英国马克沁机枪却永远改变了殖民战争的格局。

It's not so much that you invented the Maxim machine gun, although obviously that's a little bit problematic, or even that you look like the poor man's Colonel Sanders.

与其说是你发明了马克西姆机枪，尽管这显然有点问题， 甚至你看起来像穷人的桑德斯上校。

By the 19th century, European gun technology had improved dramatically, especially with the introduction of the Maxim machine gun, which allowed Europeans to wipe out Africans in battle after battle.

到了19世纪， 欧洲的枪支技术有了飞跃性的进步，尤其是马克沁机枪的问世， 让欧洲人在一场又一场的战役中消灭了非洲人。