Zulu War 1879

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The Zulu War of 1879 remains one of the best known British colonial wars & included two battles whose names reverberate through history. At Isandlwana the Zulus inflicted a crushing defeat on the British; the gallant British defence at Rorkes Drift followed & re-established British prestige. Yet as this book shows there was more to the war than this. Six months of brutal fighting followed until the Zulu kingdom was broken up its king imprisoned & the whole structure of the Zulu state destroyed. Years of intemecine strife followed until the British finally annexed Zululand as a colonial possession.