Uniforms, arms and equipment at the Battle of Isandlwana:The Zulu warriors were formed in regiments by age, their standard equipment the shield and stabbing spear. The formation for their attack, described as the ‘horns of the beast’, was said to have been devised by Shaka, the Zulu King...
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 commenced their invasion a 20,000 strong Zulu army attacked a portion of the British main column consisting of 1,...
Fugitive's Drift is renowned for its battlefield tours to all the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War battle sites in the region. Visit Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana.
On 1stApril 1879, Chelmsford’s column reached the Royal Kraal of Gingindlovu and laagered for the night. A heavy rain came on. Chelmsford had taken careful note of the lessons from Isandlwana. At every encampment, the wagons were carefully positioned to create an unbroken laager wall and th...
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The Battle of Rorke's Drift was a battle in the Anglo-Zulu War. The defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift immediately followed the British Army's defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana earlier that morning on 22 January 1879, and continued to the following day, 23 January. One ...
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his plan for a confederation discarded. The British ultimately emerged victorious from the Anglo-Zulu War, but they learned not to underestimate indigenous African forces, a lesson that was paid for in over a thousand lives. The Battle of Isandlwana remains the British Army’s worst-ever defeat...
Fugitive's Drift is renowned for its battlefield tours to all the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War battle sites in the region. Visit Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana.
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