Why Is Britain So Successful Before European Colonization

Successful colonization for the European countries was to colonize African nations in order to gain land and money. Gaining land was important for the European countries because they wanted to have an advantage in wars. of these European countries, such as Britain, France, Belgium, etc., achieved successful colonization. In this essay I will be looking more on the side of actually colonizing the country and not what happened after the colonization to make it “successful (gain in money, change in culture, etc.). Successful colonization depended on capital, artillery, medicinal advances, and transportation.
Britain is one example of successful colonization from capital. Britain’s steam technologies and coal production gave them even bigger factories
The Gatling gun, which was named after Richard Jordan Gatling, is a gun that has multiple barrels and is fired by the user turning a crank. As the user would turn the crank, one barrel after another would shift into firing position to be fired. /1/The original version was a six-barrel, .58 caliber gun that could fire 350 rounds a minute. The Gatling gun was then improved to a ten barrel, .30-caliber model that could fire 400 rounds a minute. /2/With the Gatling gun, European countries had a great advantage over the African nations. The African nations that Europe was colonizing had less powerful guns. Although the Europeans had enough weapons to completely destroy the African armies, they did not have much strategy. In 1879 during the Anglo Zulu war, the British went into Zululand thinking that they would just take out the people there with the Gatling guns and rifles that they had. On January 22 Chelmsford advanced to the battlefield with one third of his troops without protective structures. He paid for this when 800 British soldiers were killed in Isandlwana. The Zulu army took about 1,000 rifles from the British troops with their ammunition. Dabulamanzi kaMpande, who was Cetshwayo’s brother, attempted to defeat the British at Rorke’s Drift. The British would not be fooled again, they were told by the remaining troops from the battle in Isandlwana that the Zulus had better strategy.