Khalid, who let’s be frank was also a terrible person and wanted to be free of the British in order to profit from slavery, gathered together a meagre army of 2,800 (mostly untrained) civilian Zanzibaris and gave some of them machine guns – I imagine a really bad thing to be let loose with on the first day of your job. Meanwhile, the British assembled three cruisers, two gunboats, 150 fricking marines and sailors, and 900 Zanzibaris.
