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  2. Anglo-Zulu War - Wikipedia

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    The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in present-day South Africa from January to early July 1879 between forces of the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom.Two famous battles of the war were the Zulu victory at Isandlwana and the British defence at Rorke's Drift.

  3. Battle of Isandlwana - Wikipedia

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    The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 Da Capo Press, 1998, ISBN 0-306-80866-8. Smith-Dorrien, Horace. Memories of Forty-eight Years Service, London, 1925. Spiers, Edward M. . The Scottish Soldier and Empire, 1854–1902, Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

  4. Battle of Ulundi - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Ulundi took place at the Zulu capital of Ulundi (Zulu: oNdini) on 4 July 1879 and was the last major battle of the Anglo-Zulu War.The British army broke the military power of the Zulu nation by defeating the main Zulu army and immediately afterwards capturing and burning the royal kraal of oNdini.

  5. Battle of Rorke's Drift - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was an engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War.The successful British defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenants John Chard of the Royal Engineers and Gonville Bromhead, of the 24th Regiment of Foot, began once a large contingent of Zulu warriors broke off from the main force during the ...

  6. South African Wars (1879–1915) - Wikipedia

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    The Zulu were involved in two major wars. They fought against the British colonials in the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879. The Zulu were eventually overpowered by superior British technology. [83] The Anglo-Zulu war resulted in the absorption of traditional Zululand into the British Cape Colony. The second conflict also involved Zulu and British colonials.

  7. Siege of Eshowe - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Eshowe took place during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. The siege was part of a three-pronged attack on the Zulu Impis of king Cetshwayo at Ulundi.After an incursion as far as Eshowe (then also known as Fort Ekowe or kwaMondi) [1] Colonel Charles Pearson was besieged there for two months by the Zulus.

  8. Zungeni Mountain skirmish - Wikipedia

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    Narrative of the Field Operations Connected with the Zulu War of 1879. London: Greenhill Books. ISBN 1-85367-041-3. OL 8980321M – via Quartermaster General's Department, Intelligence Branch, War Office. Smith, Keith (2014). Dead Was Everything: Studies in the Anglo-Zulu War. Barnsley, United Kingdom: Frontline Books. ISBN 978-1-4738-3723-2

  9. Action at Sihayo's Kraal - Wikipedia

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    The 12 January 1879 action at Sihayo's Kraal [nb 1] was an early skirmish in the Anglo-Zulu War.The day after launching an invasion of Zululand, the British Lieutenant-General Lord Chelmsford led a reconnaissance in force against the kraal of Zulu Chief Sihayo kaXongo.