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The Last Stand at Isandlwana (originally titled The Last Stand at Isandhula) is an oil painting by Charles Edwin Fripp. It depicts the last stand of the British army at the battle of Isandlwana, and is considered one of the most notable portrayings of the Anglo-Zulu war. It is currently exhibited at the National Army Museum in London.
Edgar Samuel Paxson (April 25, 1852 – November 9, 1919) was an American frontier painter, scout, soldier and writer, based mainly in Montana.He is best known for his portraits of Native Americans in the Old West and for his depiction of the Battle of Little Bighorn in his painting "Custer's Last Stand".
This painting is a juxtaposition of various historical and legendary elements from the Battle of Thermopylae in Greece in 480 BC. Siege of Castelnuovo in July, 1539. Defense of a 4,000-man garrison in the service of Charles I of Spain, against a 50,000-strong Ottoman assault force, resulting in a last stand. Painting by Pierre Mortier.
The Last Stand at Isandlwana, by Charles Edwin Fripp "Battle of Tofrek" Charles Edwin Fripp was born in London, one of the twelve children of George Arthur Fripp (1822–1895), a landscape artist, and Mary Percival. His brother Thomas W. Fripp also became a watercolourist in Canada and his brother Robert McKay Fripp worked as an architect in ...
The Last Stand of the 44th Regiment at Gundamuck, 1842 (1898 – Essex Regiment Association, on loan National Army Museum; The 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers at Omdurman (1899 – Staff College, Camberley) The Victoria Cross (Colesberg, South Africa, 1900) (1901 – Durban Art Museum)
The paintings included a number depicting military events, including To the memory of brave men: The last stand of Major Allan Wilson at the Shangani, 4 December 1893, exhibited in 1896, The Mazoe relief, June 1896, an incident in the Matabele Rebellion in 1899, and in the following year, The Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman.
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The Battle of Gandamak on 13 January 1842 was a defeat of British forces by Afghan tribesmen in the 1842 retreat from Kabul of General Elphinstone's army, during which the last survivors of the force—twenty officers and forty-five British soldiers of the 44th East Essex Regiment—were killed.
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