[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Re the Battle of Omdurman. The charge of the “Whirling Dervishes”. I’ve seen one account that said that the British killed 10,000 of them.

How? Gatling guns or their British equivalent.

Remind me to thank the Gatling Brothers for their contribution to keep the world safe from Islamic extremists.

[Peter Libra]

Just caught your query before turning in. I had thought it was the Gatling gun but..... Always learn something, recently a television program dealt with that battle. It was the Gardner machine gun. American inventor called by that name. The slaughter was horrific. Churchill was even appalled by the mopping up of the enemy. The Gatling gun may have been used. Old poem by Henry Newbolt.

"The Gatlings jammed and the Colonel dead.
The regiment blind with dust and smoke
England's far and honour a name, but the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks.
Play up, play up and play the game."

Yep, Americans gave us the Gatling.