On January 22, 1879, on an isolated hill known as Isandlwana [ee sun shl wa na], in what is today the province of Kwa-Zulu Natal ... it addressed the border war that was going on at the time.
But one does not start a story at the end. After the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 the British banished King Cetshwayo, son of King Mpande, from the Zulu kingdom and divided the kingdom into 13 kinglets, ...
Cetshwayo had previously led the Zulu nation during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, famously presiding over the British army's most significant defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana. Following the war ...
We see this today in the 'war against terror', but it was ever thus, and in this respect Sad David is correct to draw attention to the analogy with the gross aggression committed by British Imperial ...
The Zulu leader Mbilini waMswati and his followers could see how vulnerable the convoy was from the high ground of the Tafelberg. Mbilini assembled a large force of Zulu irregulars and attacked the ...
Private John Williams VC Williams was a 21-year-old private in the 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot (later the South Wales Borderers) during the Anglo-Zulu War. On 22–23 January 1879 at Rorke’s ...
Both of us were intelligence operators, deployed in the final days of the Cold War, and both of us ... nothing more than a surrogate for Zulu hegemony, denied by the British at the Battle of Ulundi on ...
3.75 x 5.25 in. (9.5 x 13.3 cm.) ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping called this week for troops to strengthen their preparedness for war, state media reported today, just days after Beijing staged large-scale military drills around Taiwan.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he believes 10,000 North Korean soldiers could eventually join the war. Ukrainian soldiers are locked in a bitter battle for the town of Toretsk in the ...