Isandlwana 1879

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Isandlwana 1879

Author	: Ian Knight
File Size	: 41,6 Mb
Publisher	: Greenwood
Language	: English
Release Date	: 05 May 2024
ISBN	: IND:30000095318626
Pages	: 104 pages

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Isandlwana 1879 by Ian Knight Book PDF Summary

"The battle of Isandlwana fought on January 22, 1879, was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Victorian era. A Zulu Army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the British camp in the shadow of Isandlwana Mountain. From the start the 1,700 defenders underestimated the danger descending upon them. They were swept aside with horrifying speed and the final stage of the battle consisted of desperate hand-to-hand fighting amid the British camp. Ian Knight employs new archaeological and historical research to provide a completely new interpretation of the course of the battle."--BOOK JACKET.

Isandlwana 1879 by Ian Knight

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Isandlwana 1879 by Edmund Yorke

The story of one of history’s most significant battles and one of Africa’s most important historical events is expertly related and explained by a leading historian, with detailed illustrations and supplementary facts.

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Battle Story Isandlwana 1879 by Edmund Yorke

On 22 January 1879 a 20,000-strong Zulu army attacked 1,700 British and colonial forces. The engagement saw primitive weapons of spears and shields clashing with the latest military technology. However, despite being poorly equipped, the numerically superior Zulu force crushed the British troops, killing 1,300 men, whilst only losing 1,000 of their own warriors. It

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Isandlwana to Ulundi by Chris Schoeman

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Rorke s Drift and Isandlwana 1879 by Chris Peers

On 22 January 1879 a powerful British column invading Zululand was decisively defeated beneath a hill called Isandlwana. Later on the same day, 4,000 Zulus attacked a garrison of no more than 100 British troops at the mission station at Rorke's Drift, only a few miles from Isandlwana. The British held out against all

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The historian and founder of the Anglo-Zulu War Historical Society presents his groundbreaking account of the Battle of Isandlwana. The story of the British Army’s defeat at Iswandlwana in 1879 has been much written about, but never with the detail and insight revealed by the research of Dr. Adrian Greaves.

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The Zulu War 1879 by Ian Knight

The Zulu War of 1879 remains one of the best known British colonial wars and included two battles whose names reverberate through history. At Isandlwana the Zulus inflicted a crushing defeat on the British; the gallant British defence at Rorke's Drift followed and re-established British prestige. Yet as this book shows,

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Rorke s Drift and Isandlwana by CHRIS. PEERS

The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic episodes in military history. In the morning, 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed the British invading force in one of the greatest disasters ever to befall a British army.Later the same day, a Zulu force of around 3,000 warriors turned their attention

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