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Zulu Dawn is a 1979 American adventure war film directed by Douglas Hickox and written by Anthony Storey and Cy Endfield, based on Endfield's book of the same name about the historical Battle of Isandlwana between British and Zulu forces in 1879 in South Africa.
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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.
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Zulu Dawn is a 1979 war film about the historical Battle of Isandlwana between British and Zulu forces in 1879 in South Africa. The screenplay was by Cy Endf...
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Zulu Dawn: Directed by Douglas Hickox. With Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott. A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation.
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The Zulu had several battle formations, each mimicking an animal in some way. At Isandlwana, they used their Buffalo Horn formation, in which the large center group (the head) would charge the enemy head on, while two smaller groups (the horns) would flank the enemy and attack their flanks and rear.
Oct 14, 2020 · About 600 Zulus were killed, while those left wounded on the battlefield were later bayoneted by British soldiers. This, of course, is the subject of the 1964 movie Zulu starring Michael Caine, Stanley Baker, and Jack Hawkins. Zulu Dawn never proved as popular at the box office.
