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Zulu Battlefields - Kwazulu Natal
Zulu wars, Isandlwana, Rorke's Drift, Colenso, Spioenkop, Ladysmith, Dundee, Churchill, Blood River, Cetshwayo, Boers... these are some of the terms which are associated with the internationally renowned KwaZulu-Natal Battlefields area of South Africa.
Walk in the footsteps of famous military strategists such as Shaka Zulu & Winston Churchill .
The wind sighs and whispers the secrets and sorrows of great battles, made visible by lone forts and small graveyards on these undulating landscapes ringed with rocky outcrops.
The legacy of our Zulu Kingdom's critical, blood-soaked conflicts today lives peacefully - reconciled in this fascinating region's myriad Battlefield sites, historic towns, national monuments and museums.
ISANDLWANA AND RORKE'S DRIFT
ZULU WAR BATTLEFIELDS
RORKE’S DRIFT 22-23 JANUARY 1879
The camp at Rorke’s Drift (sometimes spelt Rourk’s Drift or Rorks Drift) was a re-supply depot and included a hospital and store. Prior to the Zulu battle both hospital and store had been fortified as well as the rectangular area adjoining the two buildings. At about 4.30pm on 22 January 1879 this camp garrisoned by 139 British soldiers, of whom 36 were sick or wounded, was attacked by 4 500 Zulu warriors. The battle that took place was to last for eleven and a half hours before the Zulus were repulsed.
THE ANGLO BOER WAR 1899-1902
‘By Christmas the war would be over’, were the confident cries of the British public and soldiers in 1899, at the start of the Anglo Boer War which was to prove the longest, bloodiest and most costly war since 1815 for Queen Victoria’s proud British army.
Today’s KwaZulu-Natal was not only the location of the Anglo Zulu War of 1879 but of many of the great Anglo Boer War Battles such as: Talana, Elandslaagte, Ladysmith, Colenso, Spioenkop. and Vaal Krantz.
Thou great and mighty chief!
Thou who has an army
The red soldiers came:
We destroyed them.
The mounted soldiers came:
We destroyed them.
The mounted police came:
We destroyed them
When will they dare
To repeat their attack?
Zulu Victory Song, sung after the Battle of Isandlwana
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