Re: COLONIAL WEAPONS

--- "K.H.Ranitzsch" <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de> wrote:

> I was thinking more of present-day Dutch from the
> Netherlands who are
> generally a quite peace-loving folk. Or at most,
> their colonies in Indonesia
> and the West Indies.

Sure.  But they had their nasty imperialist phase as
well.  However, he is correct in that the colonial
defense was in the hands of tiny garissions and plenty
of quite well-armed militia.

John

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