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The Battle of Isandlwana and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 | Sky HISTORY TV Channel/NEWSPA... - 3 views

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  • he battle that followed this remarkable discovery was a disaster. It hadn’t meant to be this way. When the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, Sir Henry Bartle Frere, came up with the flawed idea of annexing the British-friendly kingdom of Zululand into a greater South African Confederation by force of arms, he presumed Zulus armed with spears, clubs and shields would be no match for the mighty British Army.
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      mawandemvulana on 26 Apr 23
       
      This article describes the Battle of Isandlwana. This battle was a victory for the Zulu army but very disastrous for the British. This was due to the fact the British had undermined the Zulu army's capabilities and only thought of them as people fighting with sticks. It was embarrassing for the British government as they had not even ordered the attack.
  • Lord Chelmsford massively underestimated how many men he would need to take into Cetshwayo’s territory. So confident was Chelmsford of an easy victory that he took with him a mere 7,800 troops.
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      mawandemvulana on 26 Apr 23
       
      This is an example of the British undermining the Zulu army, as it is shown that they only brought as little as 7,800 troops.
  • In reality, the small numbers of Zulu warriors Chelmsford’s scouts had spotted and reported back to the general were a ruse devised by Cetshwayo’s commanders to draw out Chelmsford and then attack his forces from behind with the bulk of the main Zulu army. The ruse worked, and the overconfident aristocrat marched 2,800 soldiers away from the camp, splitting his forces in two.
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      mawandemvulana on 26 Apr 23
       
      This shows the intelligence of the Zulu army's military strategy.
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Origins of the Zulu Kingdom.pdf - 1 views

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  • Although the Zulu was one of the least significant of the chiefdoms absorbed during the course of Mthethwa expansion, its status changed markedly when Shaka usurped the Zulu chieftainship from his brother in 1816. One year after Dingiswayo's death Shaka's army defeated Zwide's, and Zulu expansionism proceeded apac
  • By the time of his assassination in 1828, Shaka had forged a kingdom bounded on the north by the Phongolo river, on the south by the Thukela and in the west by the Drakensberg. He evidently succeeded as a state-builder by perfecting Dingiswayo's military innovations: replacement of the long throwing spear with the short stabbing assegai; use of the winged battle formation; creation of female age-regiments; and establishment of a hierarchy of civil and political officials subordinate to the king.10
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  • The conventional emphasis on great men and the military institutions they orchestrated embraces at least two methodologi cal deficiencies. First, it is ahistorical—if one views the formation of the Zulu kingdom as a revolutionary outburst among the northern Nguni one may overlook subtle evolutionary processes of socioeconomic change; and second, it is myopic—the tendency to study Zulu state formation as a phase of military history betrays a cultural or ideological dimension that reveals a great deal about the "essence" of the Zulu kingdom
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      mawandemvulana on 25 Apr 23
       
      This article focuses on the rise of the Zulu Kingdom. The author speaks on Shaka Zulu and his success as a nation builder. It also mentions how conventional thought on the rise of the Zulu Kingdom was that is arose due to militancy and was a revolution. The author argues there are other factors that helped build the Zulu nation
  • of pre-Shakan Zululand begins with the work of anthropologist Max Gluckman. Gluckman considers the conflict which gave rise to the Zulu kingdom as the resolution of a crisis precipitated by an expanding population in the narrow coastal belt of southeastern Africa
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      mawandemvulana on 25 Apr 23
       
      The factors investigated include, how population growth was a factor in building the Zulu nation and the political planning of Shaka Zulu. Another factor mentioned is long- distance trading. It is mentioned how Dingiswayo, one of the Zulu kings initiated trade with Delagoa Bay, in the north.
  • pulation cycle throughout sub-Saharan Africa.14 In 1959, anthropologist Monica Wilson initiated a second line of investigation by suggesting that scholars examine the role of long-distance trade as a factor in Zulu state formation
  • How was the Delagoa-Natal trade network linked to Zulu state formation? According to Smith, the key lies in the existing power vacuum in the Delagoa Bay hinterland by the late eighteenth centur
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THE ZULU WAR IN ZULU PERSPECTIVE.pdf - 1 views

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  • al impact. It looms large in the European mind, but it was an event of far less significance to the Zulu mind, because, I suggest, it was an event of far less significance to Zulu history. In itself it cannot compare with the Ndwandwe war which determined that Shaka should be the master of the country and not Zwide, or with the great battle of Ndondakusuka which determined that Cetshwayo should be the Zulu king and not Mbuy
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      mawandemvulana on 25 Apr 23
       
      This article speaks on and argues how the Zulu War was insignificant to the Zulu people and their history. The author states how there were other more significant battles that the Zulu people found important to their history. It is evident that it was battles fought against people of Africa and not white colonisers
  • Of these contemporary accounts, ther
  • Turning now to Zulu literature, we find a dearth of books relating to or even touching on the War. Surely the War was a major event in Zulu history and only a minor event in British history? The literature reflects the reverse. A Zulu psychological block? An unconscious wish to forget the unfortunate past? Certainly not! Isandlwana was a Zulu victory, but it is the British who commemorate it, not the
    • mawandemvulana
      mawandemvulana on 25 Apr 23
       
      In comparison to English literature the author mentions how there is a scarcity of Zulu literature about the Zulu War, showing how it was insignificant to their history and how the British found it to be significant.
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  • The first account by a professional historian appeared only in 1948: Sir Reginald Coupland's Zulu Battlepiece: Isandlwana.
  • Zulus. Ndondakusuka has given rise to a long play by Ndelu, a long poem by Vilakazi, and there are many references to it in Zulu literature. Isandlwana has inspired no work of literary art. It is clear that the War was more significant to the British than to the Zulus; to the British it was, in fact, something of a dis
  • From the Zulu point of view it seems that the War was not only somewhat insignificant, it was also somewhat irrational. Like a bolt of lightning, it was not altogether unexpected (there were ominous clouds), it was destructive to a certain extent (there was considerable loss of life and property), but it was a very brief irrational fla
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      mawandemvulana on 25 Apr 23
       
      The author further reiterates how the war was insignificant to the Zulu people as he states that they had no objective as to why they fought certain battles, like the battle of Ulundi or the battle of Isandlwana
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Non-combatants and war: Unexplored factors in the conquest of the Zulu kingdom - 1 views

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      mawandemvulana on 25 Apr 23
       
      This article is essentially about the effects of the Zulu War, focusing on the non-combatants, people who did not fight in the war. It also discusses how the war went from being a war about liberation and against the Zulu King to a war against the Zulu nation, including its people
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      mawandemvulana on 25 Apr 23
       
      The main point of the article is that the Zulu non-combatants were affected more by the war than the British for two reasons. Firstly the British non-combatants were far from the war and secondly, it did not affect their daily lives like the Zulu. The Zulu people had their daily lives affected as their livestock and crops were destroyed, affecting their economy
  • number of pitched battles, amongst them Isandlwana and Rorke' s drift.
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      mawandemvulana on 25 Apr 23
       
      These Two battles are well known battles from the Zulu War
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WO 32/7757: Overseas: South Africa (Code 0(AU)): Zulu War: Dispatch from Lord Chelmsfor... - 2 views

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      mawandemvulana on 25 Apr 23
       
      This is a report sent to Lord Chelmsford by a Lieutenant during the Zulu war. The Lieutenant speaks on his troops and how they are still healthy and on the progress the British have made in taking over parts of Zululand, particularly North Zululand.
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      mawandemvulana on 25 Apr 23
       
      This report also speaks on how the British at the time did not know how the enemy, Cetshwayo's soldiers were advancing.
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