Throughout history, there have been many battles that have been forgotten. One such battle that the British would like to forget is the Battle of Isandlwana, which took place on Jan. 22, 1879, as part ...
The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War, witnessed the worst single day's loss of British troops between the battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the ...
AFA copy 39088019022243 Gift of Janet Stanley. An examination of the causes of the Anglo Zulu War of 1879 -- Campaign life in the British Army during the Zulu War -- Disease and illness prevalent ...
Ian Knight still has vivid memories of his first visit to Isandlwana, where 1,300 British troops and their African allies were killed in a devastating battle with the Zulu army. It was 1979, Knight ...
Two restored Model A Fords joined Kingsley Holgate’s 4-day Zululand adventure, retracing Anglo-Zulu War history from the ...
A little less than three years after George Armstrong Custer’s “Last Stand” in the battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana, a British army suffered a similar fate in Africa. Just as the United States ...
The B-4 4×4 Zululand Adventure was born 10 months ago over a few G&Ts between Holgate and Wayne Cody, owner of the car repair ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African convicted of the murder of Anglo-Zulu war expert David Rattray was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison, the SAPA news agency said. Rattray, 48, a friend ...