[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.

[Peter Libra]

To self. My post #107.

Newbolt's poem could be misconstrued vis the jamming of the Gatling gun. It worked with deadly ferocity against the Islamic hordes. As with the Gardner, patented in Toledo, Ohio 1874, much dust did cause stoppages. In tests, the Gardner fired 16,000 rounds before jamming, under perfect conditions.

Fixed it!