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Imperial Strategy and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.pdf - 0 views

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  • O’CONNOR On 22 January 1879, the British army suffered its worst colonial defeat of the nineteenth century when 1,500 men armed with the most modern weapons then available were wiped out at the battle of Isandlwana by a Zulu army––an impi––of 25,000 warriors armed only with spears.
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      The 22 January 1879 is a significant date because it was a massacre where men died. At the battle of Isandlwana.
  • t bayonet point, they fought a last-round defense against 4,000 Zulu warriors which earned them a victory and eleven Victoria Crosses––the highest number of the highest award for bravery ever bestowed on a single day in British military history.
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      The British army then fought against 4000 Zulu warriors. This was a remarkable British military history
  • It has often been posited that the British Empire provides an example of greedy capitalists dispossessing indigenous peoples in their search for new markets and raw materials, 1 yet whenever one looks into the particular circumstances of an episode of expansion, it is very difficult to isolate a viable economic motive.
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      The British Empire was a greedy empire that wanted to take away the resources, and belongings of the indigenous people and own everything. They did this during their search for new markets and raw material
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  • expanded her control over wide areas of Southern Africa during the nineteenth century against the opposition of indigenous peoples and the original Dutch settlers, the Boers, while at the same time repudiating any desire for an increase in territory or responsibility
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      Britain expanded it's control on most areas in South Africa
  • This article will argue that the roots of this war lay in the strategic importance of the Cape route to India and the particular strategic situation of the British Empire in 1879.
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      The roots of the Anglo-Zulu War lay in the strategic importance of the Cape route to India
  • Cetshwayo, however, was not a passive victim in the process that led to war. Rather , he was a shrewd leader who unfortunately suffered from an overwhelming ignorance of the extent of British power
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      King Cetshwayo was a leader who was suffering from ignorance of the extent of the British empire
  • Frere, however, making Cape Town secure was only part of the answer to external threats, and he argued that there were a number of opportunities for European powers to intervene in Southern Africa if they so wished.
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      Frere believed that they were many possibilities for European powers to intervene in South Africa.
  • ly , Cetshwayo had looked to the British as a potential ally against Boer land claims in the Disputed Territory along the Transvaal-Zululand border. Now he was in direct dispute with them.
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      At first King Cetshwayo did not see the Europeans as enemies or rivalries. However, that changed because of everything that has been happening, and now that he was aware of the European's plans he was thus in direct dispute with them.
  • Frere’s context was, therefore, that of a leading strategic thinker sent out to prepare a vulnerable point in the empire for a widely expected war with Russia that would include as a feature the possibility of a cruiser attack or commando raid on the ports of South Africa.
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      The war had key role players or people who played important roles in the war, Like Frere, King Cetshwayo, and others. Frere was a British leading strategic thinker, who was sent out to prepare vulnerable points in the empire.
  • The king has changed his tone. He says that he is tired of talking and now intends to fight and that he can easily eat up the whole lot of whitemen [sic] like pieces of meat and then not have enough... that as soon as Secucuni heard that fighting had begun, he would attack us also.
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      The Zulu King Cetshwayo got tired of playing nice, he then decided to go to war.
  • the Anglo–Zulu War of 1879: an unauthorized aggression conducted for reasons of geopolitical strategy by a man who considered himself to have the interests of the empire at heart and who distrusted the good faith of politicians. It was emphatically not, as has often been claimed in historiography,
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      The Anglo Zulu War was Thus a
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A VICTORIAN GENRE: MILITARY MEMOIRS AND THE ANGLO-ZULU WAR.pdf - 0 views

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  • values of empire: the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 generated more than most, and continues to do so over one hundred years lat
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 is the most recognized and well known war because a lot of people died and a lot of changes happen after this war.
  • Zulu military system swallowed up the individuality of the Zulu men, subjecting them to the demands of a warrior tradi
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      During the 1800s Zulu men dedicated their lives to serving the king, thus becoming warriors who swallowed up their individuality.
  • The first major scene was the scramble to get a billet in the promising war against Cetshwayo after the news of Isandlwana was published in Britain. Ambitious and
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      The Isandlwana massacre was the beginning of the war.
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  • . The whole army in Zululand was badly rattled by Isandlwana and there were numerous instances of collective panic.
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      The Zulu army was rattled by the Isandlwana massacre because that was a big war and it created enemies for them and they lost their people.
  • counterpart. The Zulus came to be seen as a warrior caste with qualities that outshone those of a restless and ungrateful British urban working class.
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THE ZULU WAR IN ZULU PERSPECTIVE.pdf - 0 views

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  • by A.T. COPE
  • PE On reading the literature on the subject of the Zulu War, both in Zulu and in English, it becomes clear that the Zulu view of the war was very different from the English or European view, not so much as to detail but as to men
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      It is very clear that the understanding of the Anglo-Zulu war is not the same because Zulu perspective and English perspective of the war differ
  • so from the British point of view: from the Zulu point of view it was the repulse of the Zulu army at Kambula/Nkambule that demonstrated the hopelessness of the Zulu cause in direct confrontation with British fire-arms. A
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      From the British Perspective, it was the army at Khambule/Nkambule that demonstrated the weaknesses of the Zulu people.
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  • Isandlwana was a Zulu victory, but it is the British who commemorate it, not the
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      Isandlwana was the Zulu victory because they defeated British army
  • the Zulu point of view it seems that the War was not only somewhat insignificant, it was also somewhat irrational
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      The Anglo Zulu war was also seen as irrational because of the reason that led to the start of the war.
  • It was clearly apparent that the white people were determined to wage war against the Zulus. . . . Sobantu was defending Cetshwayo and demanding to know what wrong he had done that he should be attacked. But there was no longer a loophole (ithuba) for the Natal Government to act otherwise, as it had already decided to invade
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      Looking at all the evidence it was very clear that white people were determined to wage war against the zulus
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  • WO 32/7837: Overseas: South Africa (Code 0(AU)): State of Affairs in Zululand; Correspondence and Dispatches regarding Disturbances. 01-01-1883 to 31-12-1884. MS Selected War Office Files on Africa WO 32/7837. The National Archives (Kew, United Kingdom). Nineteenth Century Collections Online, link.gale.com/apps/doc/ BJPYHR111699744/GDCS?u=rau_itw&sid=bookmark-GDCS&pg=17. Accessed 26 Apr. 2023.
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      mokoena03 on 28 Apr 23
       
      This manuscript is about the Zulu King Cetshwayo who was the leader of the Zulu Kingdom During the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. Cetwayo was at first ignorant of the Europeans, but later on, he realized that if he does not take action he will lose a lot. Thus he declared Europeans as enemies and then declared war against them.
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    This Manuscript talks about the Zulu King Cetshwayo who at first was clueless about the European invasion and their plan of having total power all over South Africa. At first he was ignorant towards the situation but later on he declared war against the Europeans because he wanted to defend his nation
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