Editing Gatling gun (section)

=== Africa and Asia ===
[[File: Gatling Guns in Action WDL11499 (cropped).png|thumb|left|Two [[British Army]] Gatling guns from the [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]]]]
The Gatling gun was used most successfully to expand European colonial empires by defeating indigenous warriors mounting massed attacks, including the [[Zulu people|Zulu]], the [[Bedouin]], and the [[Mahdist War|Mahdists]].<ref name=" proceedings"/> Imperial [[Russian Empire|Russia]] purchased 400 Gatling guns and used them against [[Turkmen people|Turkmen]] cavalry and other nomads of central Asia.<ref name="p1">Emmott, N.W. "The Devil's Watering Pot" ''United States Naval Institute Proceedings'' September 1972 p. 71.</ref> The [[British Army]] first deployed the Gatling gun in 1873-74 during the [[Anglo-Ashanti wars]], and extensively during the last actions of the 1879 [[Anglo-Zulu war]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Laband |first1=John |author-link=John Laband|title=Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars |date=2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Maryland, USA |isbn=978-0-8108-6078-0 |page=102 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pnf1BC_XORoC&pg=PA102}}</ref> The [[Royal Navy]] used Gatling guns during the 1882 [[Anglo-Egyptian War]].<ref name="p2"/>

Gatling guns were used by [[Khedivate of Egypt|Egyptian]] forces both on sea and land and saw combat in Sudan and Abyssinia. [[Isma'il Pasha]] ordered 120 Colt 1865 six-barrel Gatling guns; after being convinced by Shahine Pasha who witnessed Gatling gun trials at Shoeburyness in 1866. In 1872 a few <nowiki>''</nowiki>camel<nowiki>''</nowiki> guns were purchased, these were smaller and used a tripod instead of the carriage. During the [[Siege of Khartoum]] an Egyptian Gatling gun aided by a telescope was able to target Sudanese artillery crews from a distance of 2,000 yards.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dunn |first=John P. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/808492529 |title=Khedive Ismail's army |date=2012 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-64595-9 |location=London |oclc=808492529}}</ref>

Gatling guns were imported by some states in Nigeria. They were used during the Kalabari Civil war of 1879–83,<ref name="Nigeria2" /> the Abbi House bought one from King Jaja of Opobo and it may have been used in canoe warfare.<ref name=Nigeria1 /> The Ijesha used a Gatling gun against the Ibadan during the early 1880s.<ref name=Nigeria2 /> In 1882 the Bonny used a Gatling gun during an attack on New Calabar.<ref name=Nigeria3 />

By 1880, [[Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932)|Siam]] had imported an unknown number of Gatlings. By 1885 the kingdom had a Gatling Gun regiment of 600 men; those weapons were possibly used in the [[Haw wars|Haw Wars]]. They were also seen among Prince Bigit's escort in 1886.<ref>{{cite book |last=Heath |first=Ian |title=Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Burma and Indo-China |publisher=Foundry Books |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-90154-306-3 |pages=155 |orig-year=1998}}</ref>

The [[Korean Empire]] possessed a number of Gatlings. Six had been imported in 1884, by 1891 it had a battery of fourteen guns and in 1894 the army's two American drilled regiments had as many as 40 Gatlings and practiced regularly (Supposedly because the noise pleased [[Gojong of Korea|Emperor Gojong]]). Some of them were deployed to defend the approaches of the capital during the [[Donghak Peasant Revolution|Donghak Rebellion]], but there is no evidence they saw combat.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Heath |first=Ian |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50089869 |title=Armies of the nineteenth century. Asia : organisation, warfare, dress, and weapons |year=1998 |publisher=Foundry Books |isbn=1-901543-01-3 |location=St. Peter Port, Guernsey |oclc=50089869}}</ref>