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Zulu Rising
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Author : Ian Knight
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-05-06
Zulu Rising written by Ian Knight and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-06 with History categories.
The battle of iSandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonisation of South Africa. In one bloody day over 800 British troops, 500 of their allies and at least 2000 Zulus were killed in a staggering defeat for the British empire. The consequences of the battle echoed brutally across the following decades as Britain took ruthless revenge on the Zulu people. In Zulu Rising Ian Knight shows that the brutality of the battle was the result of an inevitable clash between two aggressive warrior traditions. For the first time he gives full weight to the Zulu experience and explores the reality of the fighting through the eyes of men who took part on both sides, looking into the human heart of this savage conflict. Based on new research, including previously unpublished material, Zulu oral history, and new archaeological evidence from the battlefield, this is the definitive account of a battle that has shaped the political fortunes of the Zulu people to this day.
Zulu The Battle For Rorke S Drift 1879
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Author : Edmund Yorke
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2005-07-01
Zulu The Battle For Rorke S Drift 1879 written by Edmund Yorke and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-01 with History categories.
Fought on the night of 22/23 January 1879 and immortalised in the film epic Zulu, Rorke's Drift represented one of the most glorious, if subsequently controversial episodes in British military history. For twelve desperate hours, outnumbered by over 25-1, barely 140 British soldiers, based at the remote mission station of Rorke's Drift, South Africa, were locked in a ferocious life or death struggle with over 4000 seasoned warriors of the hitherto victorious Zulu Army - the most powerful indigenous African army. Only hours earlier, in the shadow of the ominous Sphinx-like Isandlwana Crag, other elements of this same Zulu force had virtually annihilated a 1700-strong British colonial force - one of the greatest defeats of Queen Victoria's reign. In the wake of this massacre, the survival of the British Empire in South Africa rested with the tiny garrison of Rorke's Drift.
The Fall Of Rorke S Drift
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Author : John Laband
language : en
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Release Date : 2019-02-28
The Fall Of Rorke S Drift written by John Laband and has been published by Greenhill Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with Fiction categories.
For fans of Harry Turtledove, an alternate history novel in which Zulu forces triumph over the British at Rorke’s Drift in 1879 and invade Natal. January 1879. The British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom are at war. Lord Carnarvon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, who had successfully brought about federation in Canada in 1867, had believed a similar scheme would work in South Africa. But such plans are rejected by Boer leaders. Lord Chelmsford leads a British military expeditionary force to enter the Zulu Kingdom uninvited. A bloody battle ensues on 22 January 1879 at Isandlwana. The Zulus are the unexpected victors. After that brutal defeat, the British Army are at Rorke’s Drift on the Buffalo River in Natal Province, South Africa. A few hundred British and colonial troops, led by Lieutenants John Chard of the Royal Engineers and Gonville Bromhead, face the might of the Zulu army of thousands led by Prince Dabulamanzi kaMpande (CORR). Against the odds, the British are victorious, and this defeat marks the end of the Zulu nation’s dominance of the region. The Defence of Rorke’s Drift would go down in history as an iconic British Empire Battle and inspired Victorian Britain. Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to military personnel. But what if the Zulus had defeated the British at Rorke’s Drift and invaded Natal? . . . In the first ever alternate history of the Anglo-Zulu War, historian John Laband asks that question. With his vast knowledge of the Anglo-Zulu War, he turns history on its head and offers a tantalizing glimpse of a very different outcome, weaving a compelling, never-before told story of what could have been.
The Rise And Fall Of The Zulu Nation
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Author : John Laband
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Rise And Fall Of The Zulu Nation written by John Laband and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Zulu (African people) categories.
The Rise Fall Of The Zulu Nation
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Author : John Laband
language : en
Publisher: Arms & Armour
Release Date : 1997
The Rise Fall Of The Zulu Nation written by John Laband and has been published by Arms & Armour this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
A historical look at the Zulu nation portrays a politically sophisticated, administratively integrated, and militarily effective polity which was overthrown by the British Empire only because it was a pre-industrial society which lacked firepower
Custer And The Sioux Durnford And The Zulus
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Author : Paul Williams
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-08-21
Custer And The Sioux Durnford And The Zulus written by Paul Williams and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-21 with History categories.
In June 1876 the 7th U.S. Cavalry was savagely defeated at the Little Bighorn in the Montana wilderness during an attempt to seize Sioux and Cheyenne hunting grounds. Three years later redcoats mirrored this utter disaster with an equally high-handed grab for Zulu lands in South Africa. Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and Lieutenant Colonel Anthony W. Durnford had much in common, from modes of dress to the way they died. This book interweaves the stories of the two soldiers and their final battles, revealing how, to an astonishing degree, similar personalities, aims, tactics, weapons, stupidity and a gross underestimation of the powers of the native people led to calamitous defeat.
In The Shadow Of Isandlwana
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Author : John Laband
language : en
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Release Date : 2023-10-12
In The Shadow Of Isandlwana written by John Laband and has been published by Greenhill Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Lord Chelmsford is not a bad man. He is industrious and conscientious so far as his lights guide him. But nature has refused to him the qualities of a great captain. He has suffered much and is entitled to certain commiseration.” – Thomas Gibson Bowles, Vanity Fair General Lord Chelmsford’s military career took him around the world; he served in the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny and the Abyssinian Expedition, before commanding the British invasion of the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa. In January 1879, disaster struck when Chelmsford divided his forces at Isandlwana in the face of the enemy and the Zulu overwhelmed his camp, killing more than 1,300 of its defenders. Such a defeat was almost unprecedented in a Victorian colonial campaign. Despite Chelmsford's later victories at Gingindlovu and Ulundi, he was humiliatingly relieved of his command. His responsibility for Isandlwana dogged him for the rest of his days, and he would forever be associated with this historic defeat. In this comprehensive new biography, Anglo-Zulu War specialist John Laband, explores the personal character and military career of Lord Chelmsford, providing a well-rounded, well-balanced and well-informed picture of this complex military figure.
The Washing Of The Spears
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Author : Donald R. Morris
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 1998-08-22
The Washing Of The Spears written by Donald R. Morris and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-08-22 with Social Science categories.
Filled with colorful characters, dramatic battles like Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, and an inexorable narrative momentum, this unsurpassed history details the sixty-year existence of the world's mightiest African empire—from its brutal formation and zenith under the military genius Shaka (1787–1828), through its inevitable collision with white expansionism, to its dissolution under Cetshwayo in the Zulu War of 1879.
My Book Of Poems Revisited
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Author : Tommy L. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2018-08-28
My Book Of Poems Revisited written by Tommy L. Johnson and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-28 with Poetry categories.
My Book of Poems Revisited is based on my personal beliefs, my life experiences and how I overcame adversities that threatened my life and livelihood.
Shaka Zulu
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Author : E. A. Ritter
language : en
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Release Date : 1978
Shaka Zulu written by E. A. Ritter and has been published by Penguin (Non-Classics) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) categories.
"The classic of African History -- a biography of Shaka Zulu, founder of the Zulu nation, born leader and brilliant general...E.A. Ritter grew up with the Zulus, earning their respect and accumulating a rich store of material during his long association with them. Shaka's life and deeds had been handed down by word of mouth from generation to generation, and they are here evoked with a sense of drama and an eye for detail." -- Back cover.