The biggest flex I have known is about British India invading Tibet .
In 1903 , Lord Curzon was India's viceroy and russia and Britain were engaged in a conflict of sorts known as the great game .
Now the Brits were paranoid about a possible invasion of India by Russian empire and had taken measures in previous century to secure the Afghan and Persian Frontier, heavily guarding the Khyber and Bolan passes and areas on the either sides with fortresses and garrisons .
One Frontier was wide open, and that was Tibet .
Thus British India sent emmisaries to Dalai Lama , but were received with not much affection.
Instead there were credible intelligence reports ( also known as rumours) that Tibet was working with Russians to harm British India .
Well, a force under General Francis younghusband was created ,3000 strong with 2 maxim machine guns , 4 arty pieces and all men armed with Lee Enfield bolt action rifles .
The force consisted of both Anglo and indian troops.
Some time later an incursion by Tibetans was reported by Nepalis ,a defacto protectorate on india , it could not be verifled whether it was Tibetan army or a group of Shepards , although in hindsight the latter possibility is more likely.
The British interpreted this event as a invasion of Nepal by regular Tibetan army and got a reason to invade to Tibet itself .
The men marched under general younghusbands command and wintered in mountains in December of 1903 .
Soon they resumed their March in 1904 and reached the village of gurum or semyonchuk by March 31 ,1904 .
Their they met their first obstacle , force of Tibetan army around 3000 men strong blocked their path near a mountain pass.
They were armed with matchlok guns and clubs and bow and arrows.
The British were armed with cutting edge tech of their time.
It is said that general young husband convinced Tibetans to extinguish the matches on thier guns , and as a gesture of peace ordered his own men to take out the cartridge in the chamber of their Lee Enfield.
When Tibetans extinguished their guns , he immediately ordered his men to fire on the enemy .
In just 4 minutes, 700 Tibetans of 3000 present were killed .
Later on Tibet was forced to cede some areas to British India ( that region is arunachal pradesh of today ) and pay a war indemnity to the British government in india. ( the spelling of the location of the battle might be misspelt but it's certainly not intentional and wholly inadvertent mistake on my part )
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