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Warfare, Political Leadership, and State Formation: The Case of the Zulu Kingdom, 1808-... - 1 views

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  • Shaka
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      nokubongakhumalo on 26 Apr 23
       
      He was the most powerful ruler of the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 until his death in 1828.
  • The history of the Zulu Kingdom begins with the reign of Dingiswayo, chief of the Mthethwa, an Nguni-speaking group of the Bantu population in southeastern Africa. During his reign from 1808 to 1818, Dingiswayo conquered several chiefdoms surrounding the Mthethwa territory. The main drive for Dingiswayo's wars of conquest was his desire to end the internecine fighting between different communities and to bring them under a single governmen
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      nokubongakhumalo on 26 Apr 23
       
      Dingiswayo was the first person to ever rule the ZULU KINGDOM of the Mthethwa and he managed to defeat those other chiefdoms that surrounded him.
  • The Zulu, at that time a small lineage of some 2,000 members, were also conquered by the Mthethwa. Shaka an illegitimate son of the Zulu chief, took refuge with the MthethwaS joined their army, and became one of its bravest warriors. When the chief of the Zulu died, Shaka seized power and reorganized the Zulu community along Mthethwa military lines based on age rather than kinship. Dingiswayo died in 1818 during a confrontation with the Ndwandwe community. Thereafter Shaka killed the legitimate heir of Dingiswayo appointed a favorite to be the new Mthethwa chiefs but soon subsumed the Mthethwa regiments under Zulu control and proclaimed himself the new ruler of the Zulu Kingdom.
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      nokubongakhumalo on 26 Apr 23
       
      Dingiswayo also managed to conquer the Zulus and joined armies with them but when he died King Shaka Zulu took over and ruled the Zulu Kingdom on his own .
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  • The reign of Shaka marks a crucial phase in the history of the Zulu Kingdom. After Shaka had seized power, he further developed the disciplined organization of the military. He introduced the assegai (a short thrusting spear) and trained the army to encircle the enemy in a shield-to-shield formation so that rival warriors could be stabbed at the heart. These military-technical innovations were to be of enormous political importance. The efficiency of the military apparatus allowed Shaka to gather a large number of chiefdoms into one entity and to incorporate the defeated troops into the Zulu military. Though some chiefdoms were able to disperse into other territories, Shaka's wars resulted in the merging of some 300 formerly independent chiefdoms into the Zulu Kingdom.
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      nokubongakhumalo on 26 Apr 23
       
      Shaka is the first person to introduce the idea of spears and he is the one who made sure that every person in the army of the Zulus knows how to attack their enemies , after he defeated those smaller chiefdoms he then took control of them and formed a larger Zulu Kingdom.
  • In 1878, Bartle Frere, the British High Commissioner of South Africa, presented an ultimatum for Cetshwayo to disband the Zulu army, stop the many executions, as Shepstone had already advised during Cetshwayo's coronation, give missionaries the freedom to teach, and grant young Zulu men the freedom to marry. When the Zulu king did not conform to these demands, a succession of bloody confrontations between the Zulu and the British ultimately led to the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879, aiter which the Zulu Kingdom was brought under British colonial rule.
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      nokubongakhumalo on 26 Apr 23
       
      This paragraph is all about how the Anglo-Zulu war started.
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Notes on Hasty Defences as Practised in South Africa.pdf - 1 views

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  • The Zulus mere then only armed with assegais, and when an “impi” (Le. army) mas discovered by any party, it retired slowly, retarding the Zulus as much as possible, and sending off messengers at oncc to warn the train.
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      nokubongakhumalo on 25 Apr 23
       
      The Zulus used spears during the war.
  • At Utrecht, in the I’ransvaal, during the Zulu War of 1879
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      nokubongakhumalo on 25 Apr 23
       
      this states when and where the Zulu war took place.
  • nokubongakhumalo on 25 Apr 23
     
    This source is all about the techniques and defences that people used during the Zulu war.
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WO 32/7794: Overseas: South Africa (Code 0(AU)): Chief of Staff's Journal of Military O... - 2 views

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  • nokubongakhumalo on 26 Apr 23
     
    pages 2,4,6,7 are about the Zulu war or the Zulu Kingdom.
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  • nokubongakhumalo on 26 Apr 23
     
    This is an image of Cetshwayo kaMpande who was the king of the Zulu kingdom from 1873 to 1879. In the picture, he is under the British guard after Britain invaded the Zululand and defeated it in order to take control in 1879.
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