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How did Indians perform in World War I?
India has been colonized by the British Empire for nearly 200 years in history and is the largest colony in Britain. It was once praised by the British as "the jewel in the crown". 1757 After India became a British colony, a large number of Indians joined the British army and participated in a series of wars of British foreign expansion. During the Opium War and Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China, Indians could be seen in British military camps. After the outbreak of World War I, hundreds of thousands of Indians followed the British army to the battlefield, but their performance on the battlefield was not ideal, and even dragged the British army back to some extent.

After the outbreak of World War I, a large number of Indian soldiers followed the British army to the German colonies in Africa to fight against the Germans and African aborigines there. Indian soldiers had just set foot on the African continent when they encountered setbacks, which came from killer bees, Africa. Most of these killer bees live on dead trees. After an Indian soldier's rifle went off, these small animals were alarmed and began to attack the British and Indian soldiers who landed in droves.

According to a British engineer who was stung by a bee, when he woke up, he found that Indian soldiers had thrown away all their equipment, crossed the beach full of munitions just unloaded from the transport ship, jumped into the sea and swam to the transport ship with their hands in the air.

Later, the Germans stationed on the shore attacked the defeated British army. The British landing ended in failure. More than 800 British and Indian soldiers were killed, more than 500 soldiers were injured and about 200 Indian soldiers were missing. Only 15 white soldiers and 54 indigenous soldiers were killed or injured, and the Germans also obtained materials abandoned by the British army on the coast and used them all the time. The war is over.

Shortly after this defeat, the British army set sail in Mombasa and landed at a port in East Africa. After living on the ship for more than two months, the Indian soldiers in the British army were already exhausted, and people were constantly caught in the swamp on the way. They were afraid to walk when they passed through the mangrove forest, for fear of jumping out of the Woods as "man-eating niggers". In this way, after landing for two days and two nights, they arrived at the designated place one after another.

When the British arrived at their destination, they rested in a cocoa garden. The Germans attacked them immediately after they found out. At that time, the number of Germans was only one-eighth of that of British troops. After hearing the gunshots, the British army immediately organized soldiers to fight back, only to find that more than 0/00 soldiers of India's most elite Rajput regiment/KLOC were afraid to come out. When the German native soldiers rushed at the Indians, the Indian soldiers turned around and ran away, leaving the swearing British officers behind.

At that time, a British officer tried to stop the Indian soldiers from escaping. As a result, an Indian officer pulled out his saber to cut him. The commander killed the Indian officer in self-defense. Later, when commenting on Indian soldiers, the British officer said, "I never believed that men of any race would degenerate to such a shameless level."