A common feature shared by all machine gun models was not only their provision of a staggering increase in firepower but also their relative invulnerability on the colonial battlefield. By i

The author says, “A common feature shared by all machine gun models was not only their provision of a staggering increase in firepower but also their relative invulnerability on the colonial battlefield. By invulnerability, I refer to the fact that the effectiveness of the gun was impervious to mass casualties?as long as one man survived to aim a functional gun, the odds remained in his favor. Manpower was rendered almost irrelevant, and the gun reigned supreme…Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim, and they have not’,”
What historical example supports the author’s point?