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Beyond the call of duty.pdf - 2 views

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Omphile Nkuna History 2A

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  • Lt Col Henry Pulleine
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      omphilenkuna on 25 Apr 23
       
      Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Pulleine was in command of the British camp at Isandhlwana when the camp was attacked and wiped out by the army of 20 000 Zulu warriors. His leadership was criticized due to the fact that the defenses of the camp were non-existent and his army was put to far-forward and couldn't be supplied with ammunition.
  • I venture to suggest that he must have been excited. He was going to get a battle, after all.
    • omphilenkuna
      omphilenkuna on 25 Apr 23
       
      The Author suggests that the idea of battle excited Lt Col Henry Pulleine.
  • Lord Chelmsford, failed to entrench his position, and failed to draw his wagons into a defensive arrangement.
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      omphilenkuna on 25 Apr 23
       
      It seems that the attack was so sudden that the British army didn't have time to defend themselves or prepare for it
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  • I ask you to accept that he experienced a pang of nerves.
    • omphilenkuna
      omphilenkuna on 25 Apr 23
       
      Seeing the numbers of the Zulu warriors must have scared Lt Col Henry Pulleine. He was no longer excited by the idea of battle, i feel that this is because he undermined the Zulu army and was under-prepared for their attack.
  • He split that huge column and went off into the south-east with more than half the men
    • omphilenkuna
      omphilenkuna on 25 Apr 23
       
      Chelmsford had the wrong assumption of the whereabouts of the Zulu army and left the camp vulnerable by taking half of the men with him.
  • Twenty-five thousand Zulu warriors, accompanied by several thousand teenage boys carrying their older brothers' spare rations and sleeping mats, and several thousand women, were lying in a massive hidden valley
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      omphilenkuna on 25 Apr 23
       
      The Zulu nation moved strategically, the younger boys carried the necessary extras that the warriors would need and the women travelling alongside the men was a good decision because it meant that even if the British had planned a suprise attack they would always be protected.
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The Anglo-Zulu War and its Aftermath.pdf - 1 views

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  • During these years the whole structure of Zulu society unravelled under the impact of internecine strife, Boer intervention, and British policies.
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      omphilenkuna on 25 Apr 23
       
      The Boer and British intervening in the everyday functioning of the Zulu kingdom had a negative impact and formed part of a traumatic period for the Zulu kingdom
  • conflict between the uSuthu supporters of the royal house and their Mandlakazi rivals over control of the old kingdom and disputed land resources was such as to cause permanent damage and disruption to Zulu society and to open the way for white intervention and dispossession.
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      omphilenkuna on 25 Apr 23
       
      it seems that the conflict among the tribes was a gateway for white intervention. almost as though the Boer's and British saw the separation as a way to squeeze in and further separate the tribes so that invading them would be easier.
  • Criticised and ostracised by white officials and settlers in both Zululand and Natal, and admired and revered by many Zulu,
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      omphilenkuna on 25 Apr 23
       
      Harriette Colenso was criticized and disliked by white officials and settlers due to her influence over Zulu people. the admiration of the Zulu people may be one of the reasons why white settlers and officials disliked her, she had a power they wanted to posses and her being a woman put an even bigger target on her back.
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Warfare, Political Leadership, and State Formation: The Case of the Zulu Kingdom, 1808-... - 2 views

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  • : Robert Carneiro's circumscription theory
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      omphilenkuna on 25 Apr 23
       
      Robert Carneiro was an American anthropologist and a curator of the American Museum of Natural history. his circumscription theory explains how early political states might have formed due to interactions between warfare, population pressures and environmental constraints.
  • : Robert Carneiro's circumscription theory
  • Elman Service's
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      omphilenkuna on 25 Apr 23
       
      Elman Service was an American neo-evolutionary cultural anthropologist, he famously contributed to the development of the modern theory of social evolution. he developed a four-stage model of societal evolution, he argued that all cultures progressed from family and kinship based societies to chiefdoms and then states.
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  • One of the crucial problems in the historical study of political systems, speciflcally in non-Western contexts, is the transformation from egalitarian to state societies
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      omphilenkuna on 25 Apr 23
       
      the difference between how Europeans ran their political systems and how Africans ran heirs is that, Africans worked according to lineage, kinship, chiefdoms and tribes before they were introduced the egalitarian way of doing things
  • the process of warfire and political subjugation to create even greater political unit
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      omphilenkuna on 25 Apr 23
       
      Carneiro seems to believe that warfare is an essential element in the formation states.
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