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Imperial Strategy and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.pdf - 1 views

RIKA MMATHAPELO 220141329

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  • Isandlwana ultimately made things worse for the Zulus because it brought such a storm of political irritation down on Frere that he was unable to carry through his plans for a workable postwar settlement for Zululand.
  • ANGLO–ZULU WAR
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      A battle between the Zulu Kingdom and the British Army (Red soldiers.
  • weapons
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      such as guns
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  • Zulu army––
  • spears
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      A long and sharp pointed weapon used for thrusting and throwing.
  • gold
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      before 1886
  • In Natal, little business confidence existed to encourage investment or immigrants,
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      Therefore, A force led by Lieutenant Chelmsford saw an opportunity and invaded Zululand to enforce British demand.
  • The choice of Sir Bartle Frere as High Commissioner reinforces the argument that confederation was primarily intended to bring South Africa into a state of defense.
  • Frer
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      British colonial administrator in South Africa (as well as India)
  • Both Carnarvon and his successor Hicks-Beach reinforced this conviction: Carnarvon wrote to him constantly about the developing crisis in the Balkans; 26 Hicks-Beach engaged in a constant correspondence with the Colonial governments, urging them to make preparations for war , 27 and singled out Frere for praise in his efforts to take the Cape defenses in hand. 28 He also told him that if “the treaty of S. Stefano [which Russia imposed on Turkey in early 1878] remains unaltered, I think the ultimate result must be war .” 2
  • his aspect of South African affairs has been entirely neglected in the historiography, which tends to look at Frere almost entirely through the prism of the Anglo–Zulu War of 1879.
  • Cetshwayo
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      King Cetshwayo ordered his troop at Isandlwana (1879) to attack the British army. "Attack at the dawn and eat up the red soldiers".
  • Zulu King, who would no doubt look on this development as something of a diplomatic revolution. 48
  • Isandlwana
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      An isolated hill in Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN).
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ZULU WAR ONLINE ARTICLE.pdf - 5 views

RIKA MMATHAPELO ROOI 220141329

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  • T he Anglo-Zulu war is perhaps the most well known colonial campaign of the V ictorian or any other era
  • ut before the discovery of gold in 1886, the region was poor and unpromising –
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      Therefore, the British army had a desire for the Zulu population to provide labor.
  • the aim of this paper is to challenge some of these assumptions and to put forward a more radical and, I think, a more plausible answer to the question of why there was an Anglo-Zulu war in 1879.
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      There are various perspectives concerning the Zulu war.
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  • 18 000 Europea
  • settlers
  • ritannica but with the emergence of the USA,
  • Other theorists have argued that Zululand was conquered to turn the Zulu warriors into miners and farm labourers, b
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      Similar to the context of slavery. The British or European army (capitalists wanted to oppress the lower class (in this case the Zulu people)
  • efore 1860, Britain had had no serious rivals for her easy dominance of trade and empire expressed in the idea of Pa
  • ir Bartle Frere an
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      The former governor of the Bombay presidency
  • And at the tip of this iceberg was Lord Carnarvon, whose first act as Colonial Secretary was to order a thoroughgoing imperial defence review
  • The first visible sign of this review in Natal was the building of Fort Durnford at Estcourt and Fort Amiel at Newcastle.
  • t Lucia Bay in the north of Zululand was annexed in 1886 without the knowledge of th
  • Colonial Secretary while Zululand itself was finally annexed in 1887 by Melmoth Osborn on his own initiative.
  • up the Political and Secret Committee (a fact that was carefully omitted from his tombstone biography) and shepherded the Prince of Wales on his tour of India in 1876 – no mean feat, given Bertie the Boundah’s extra-curricular interests
  • esponsibility for starting the Zulu war – it was the work of Sir Bartle Frere, British High Commissioner
  • Henry Bartle Edward Frere was born at Bath in 1815, joined the East India Company in 1834 and went to work in the Bombay presidency, where he rose rapidly through the ranks – it helped that he married the governor’s daughter – to become the Chief Commissioner of Sind on the North West frontier, member of the Viceroy’s Council (1859–62) and ultimately, the legendary Governor of Bombay (1862–7). For a short period after the mutiny he was, de facto, Viceroy of India as everyone else on the Council had died or was in England. On his return to England he served on the India Council heading
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      Sir Henry Bartle Frere's biography
  • Frere was sent out to South Africa not to tame the Zulus but to get ready to fight the Russians.
  • ujhistprof on 19 May 23
     
    Counts as your general historical source (not Diigo or T&F)
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