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The Anglo-Zulu War in 1879 is one of the most well known colonial wars of the British Empire. And while the British ultimately won and annexed the Zulu Kingdom, at the Battle of Isandlwana they suffered one of their worst defeats.

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» SOURCES
Norman Holme, The Noble 24th: Biographical Records of the 24th Regiment in the Zulu War and the South African Campaign 1877 to 1879.
Saul David, Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879
James Hammer Papers, James to his father, undated letter, National Army Museum.
T.E. Newmarch Papers, ‘Looking Back’, unpublished memoir, Killie Campbell Africana Library, Durban
William Wright, A British Lion in Zululand: Sir Garnet Wolseley in South Africa
Donald Morris, The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Great Zulu Nation
John Laband, Zulu Warriors
John Laband, Fight Us in the Open: The Anglo-Zulu War Through Zulu Eyes
Ian Beckett, Rorke’s Drift and Isandlwana
Ken Gillings, The Battles of Kwa-Zulu Natal
Jeff Guy, The Destruction of the Zulu Kingdom
Ian Knight, The Anatomy of the Zulu Army
Barry Johnson, The Life of Henry Hook VC
Richard Cope, The Ploughshare of War: The Origins of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
Natal Mercury, 22 January 1929, ‘A Zulu Warrior Recalls the War’


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