“European armies began to adopt breechloaders in the 1840s” (Gilbert and Reynolds 268) and by the mid-nineteenth century England would adopt their entire armed forces to breechloaders. The significance was that breechloaders were easier to use, and reload. Additionally, breechloaders held more ammo, and were extremely accurate. The “Brussels Convention of 1890 forbade Europeans to sell modern firearms to Africa” (Gilbert and Reynolds 268) and having superior firepower laid the groundwork for Europe to colonize Africa. The Brussels Convention and its stipulation of forbidding of selling modern firearms to Africa would be resourceful when Britain meets resistance from the Sudanese army at the battle of Omdurman in …show more content…
Except that before Britain brought these gifts of western ideologies, and philosophies Britain, and many other European nations brought war and bloodshed to Africa. The Sudan people are a great example of enforcing rule, and ideologies on a population. Even though the Sudanese army had courage to fight the colonization of Britain, the Sudanese army did fall under the British rule. Similar to other African countries “courage was no match for modern weapons” (Gilbert and Reynolds 269) and eventually African countries fell to the opposition, which was a European