how true is this..

 

Tea time at a British camp at Itu, present day Akwa Ibom, on the ‘Aro Punitive Expedition’ of 1901, the invasion of Arochukwu and subsequent 3 month stand off between the eastern Igbo confederacy and the British led African troops (as with many European-African conflicts, the invaders and ruiners of Arochukwu were overwhelmingly African (1605), with European officers (74)). The crucial factor of Aro’s defeat was the maxim gun.