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The Battle of Isandlwana (alternative spelling: Isandhlwana) on 22 January 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom.
- Rorke's Drift
The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also known as the Defence of...
- Lord Chelmsford
General Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford,...
- Hamilton-Browne
He was present at the Battle of Isandlwana in the Zulu War...
- Natal Native Pioneer Corps
The Natal Native Pioneer Corps, commonly referred to as the...
- Zulu Empire
The Zulu Kingdom (/ ˈ z uː l uː / ZOO-loo, Zulu: KwaZulu),...
- List of Zulu Regiments
Zulu Order of Battle at Isandlwana. The Zulu deployment at...
- Dabulamanzi kaMpande
Dabulamanzi kaMpande (c. 1839 – September 22, 1886) was a...
- Lord Carnarvon
Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, KP,...
- Battle of Blood River
The Battle of Blood River (16 December 1838) was fought on...
- Zulu Dawn
Zulu Dawn is a 1979 American adventure war film about the...
- Rorke's Drift
Isandlwana (Zulu pronunciation: [ísanˈdɮwáːna]) (older spelling Isandhlwana, also sometimes seen as Isandula) is an isolated hill in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It is located 169 kilometres (105 mi) north by northwest of Durban.
- 1,284 m (4,213 ft)
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Unknown
- Drakensberg foothill
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- Tristan Hughes
- Lord Chelmsford invaded Zululand with a British army on 11 January. The invasion came after Cetshwayo, the king of the Zulu Kingdom, did not reply to an unacceptable British ultimatum that demanded (among other things) he disband his 35,000-strong army.
- Chelmsford made a fundamental tactical error. Confident that his modernised army could easily quash Cetshwayo’s technologically inferior forces, Chelmsford was more worried that the Zulus would avoid fighting him on the open field.
- 1,300 men were left to defend Isandlwana… Half of this number were either native auxiliaries or European colonial troops; the other half were from British battalions.
- … but the camp was not suited for defence. Chelmsford and his staff decided not to erect any substantial defences for Isandlwana, not even a defensive circle of wagons.
The Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Eleven days after the British invaded Zululand in Southern Africa, a Zulu force of some 20,000 warriors attacked a portion of the British main column consisting of approximately 1,800 British, colonial ...
Jan 25, 2014 · The battle of Isandlwana in 1879 - in which a force of 20,000 Zulus annihilated a British contingent of 1,800 men - became a symbol to black South Africans that white domination was not...
The Charge of the Light Brigade. The central invasion column was under the direct command of Chelmsford. It headed out from the mission station of Rorke’s Drift in the British-held territory of Natal on the 11th of January, crossing the Buffalo River into Zululand.
May 8, 2017 · The Battle of Isandlwana was part of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa. Date. The British were defeated on January 22, 1879. Armies & Commanders. British. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pulleine. Lieutenant Colonel Anthony William Durnford. 1,400 British, 2,500 African infantry. Read More. Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rourke's Drift.
