A.k.a. rubbing their noses in it.

The Imperial Lion treads the Napoleonic Eagle, the Tricouleur, a sabre, a Chassepot rifle and a Reffye Mitrailleuse, which was an early machine-gun with 25 13mm barrels. It was powerful and rapid, but no theory of deployment existed at the time: they were used against cavalry rather than infantry and so weren't as decisive as the French had hoped.