The victorious Protestant and Roman Catholic converts…

The victorious Protestant and Roman Catholic converts now divide the Buganda kingdom, which they rule through a figurehead kabaka dependent on their guns and goodwill.

Thus, outside religion has disrupted and transformed the traditional state

Soon afterwards, the arrival of competing European imperialists— the German Doctor Karl Peters (an erstwhile philosophy professor) and the British Captain Frederick Lugard—break the Christian alliance; the British Protestant missionaries urge acceptance of the British flag, while the French Catholic mission either supports the Germans (in the absence of French imperialists) or calls for Buganda to retain its independence.

In January 1892, fighting breaks out between the Protestant and Catholic Baganda converts.

The Catholics quickly gain the upper hand, until Lugard intervenes with a prototype machine gun, the Maxim (named after its American inventor, Hiram Maxim).

The Maxim decides the issue in favor of the pro-British Protestants; the French Catholic mission is burned to the ground, and the French bishop flees.

The resultant scandal is settled in Europe when the British government pays compensation to the French mission and persuades the Germans to relinquish their claim to Uganda.