Naked spearmen fall in swathes before machine-guns, without inflicting a single casualty in return | |
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Francis Hall, an officer in the and after whom was named, asserted: "There is only one way to improve the Wakikuyu [and] that is wipe them out; I should be only too delighted to do so, but we have to depend on them for food supplies | You can read Dilke's speech in full here: |
The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army 1994 p.
12Hardinge, in a proclamation on 1 July 1895, announced that he was taking over the as well as the interior that included the Kikuyu land, now known as Central Province | It formally started when Her Majesty's agent and Counsel General at Zanzibar, A |
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And when unrest again appeared it was with other leaders | Blakeley, Ruth 3 April 2009 |
Risings that followed such a course could hardly be repeated.