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The '''Gatling Gun''' was an early [[machine gun]] utilising a revolving barrel; it was patented by the American Dr Richard J. Gatling in 1862. First used by the Union Army during the American Civil War, it was to be a mainstay of warfare for the more industrially advanced nations for several decades, being used in the [[Anglo-Zulu War]] and the [[Spanish-American War]], among others.

The '''Gatling Gun''' was an early [[machine gun]] utilising a revolving barrel; it was patented by the American Dr Richard J. Gatling in 1862. First used by the Union Army during the American Civil War, it was to be a mainstay of warfare for the more industrially advanced nations for several decades, being used in the [[Anglo-Zulu War]] and the [[Spanish-American War]], among others.

It was also, perhaps unusually, celebrated in poetry. The Anglo-French author Hilaire Belloc summed up the realities of colonial warfare in the rhyme

It was also, perhaps unusually, celebrated in poetry. Sir [[Henry Newbolt]]'s patriotic appeal ''Vitai Lampada'' has as its middle verse:

 

 

 

while Sir [[Henry Newbolt]]'s patriotic appeal ''Vitai Lampada'' has as its middle verse:

''The sand of the desert is sodden red-''  

''The sand of the desert is sodden red-''