The Zulu War of 1879 remains one of the best known British colonial wars and included two battles whose names reverberate through history. At Isandlwana the Zulus inflicted a crushing defeat on the British; the gallant British defence at Rorke's Drift followed and re-established British prestige. Yet as this book shows, there was more to the war than this. Six months of brutal fighting followed, until the Zulu kingdom was broken up, its king imprisoned and the whole structure of the Zulu state destroyed. Years of internecine strife followed, until the British finally annexed Zululand as a colonial possession.
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The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 remains one of the best-known 'little wars' in the history of the later British Empire. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
royal homesteads, coastal sector, centre column, right horn, coastal districts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rorke's Drift, King Cetshwayo, South Africa, White Mfolozi, Flying Column, Anglo-Zulu War, Prince Mbilini, King Shaka, Port Natal, British Army, British Empire, Ist Division, Lower Drift, Lower Thukela, Middle Drift, Prince Dabulamanzi, Cape Town, Colonel Wood, Killie Campbell Library, Prince Hamu, Sir Garnet Wolseley, Afghan War, Fort Thinta, Pietermaritzburg Archives Depot, Prince Dinuzulu New!
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The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 remains one of the best-known 'little wars' in the history of the later British Empire. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
royal homesteads, coastal sector, centre column, right horn, coastal districts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rorke's Drift, King Cetshwayo, South Africa, White Mfolozi, Flying Column, Anglo-Zulu War, Prince Mbilini, King Shaka, Port Natal, British Army, British Empire, Ist Division, Lower Drift, Lower Thukela, Middle Drift, Prince Dabulamanzi, Cape Town, Colonel Wood, Killie Campbell Library, Prince Hamu, Sir Garnet Wolseley, Afghan War, Fort Thinta, Pietermaritzburg Archives Depot, Prince Dinuzulu New!
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- Zulu War (General Military) by Ian Knight on page 87, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Zulu Wars by C H Moodie in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- National Army Museum Book Of The Zulu War (Pan Grand Strategy Series) by Ian Knight in Back Matter
- Then and Now (First Flight Books Level One) by Richard Thompson in Back Matter
- The Vietnam War (Twentieth-Century Wars (Palgrave Paperback)) by David L. Anderson in Back Matter
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