Panorama of the Battlefield at Isandlwana, Zulu-Natal, South Africa

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Panorama of the Battlefield at Isandlwana, Zulu-Natal, South Africa
Panorama of the Battlefield at Isandlwana, Zulu-Natal, South Africa

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 of Zululand in South Africa, a Zulu force of some 20,000 warriors attacked a portion of the British main column consisting of about 1,800 British, colonial and native troops and perhaps 400 civilians.

The Zulus were equipped mainly with the traditional assegai iron spears and cow-hide shields, but also had a number of muskets and old rifles. Though they were not formally trained in their use.

The British and colonial troops were armed with the state-of-the-art. Martini-Henry breech-loading rifle and two 7 pounder artillery pieces as well as a rocket battery. Despite a vast disadvantage in weapons technology,The numerically superior Zulus ultimately overwhelmed the poorly led and badly deployed. British, killing over 1,300 troops, including all those out on the forward firing line. The Zulu army suffered around a thousand killed.

(Wikipedia)

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