Not 300 warriors, but 300 men, women, and children.

The Whites were armed with guns, the Blacks with clubs and spears.

The Whites had fought the Blacks for a quarter of a century, and had tried every thinkable way to capture, kill, or subdue them; and could not do it.

If white men of any race could have done it, these would have accomplished it.

But every scheme had failed, the splendid 300, the matchless 300 were unconquered, and manifestly unconquerable.